ArgumentError in "is a pending example" - block not supplied

Testing RSpec
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We have a few unfinished examples in our code of the form

it “should and does do something” do
# stuff
end

it “should do something someday”

it “should and does do something else” do
# more stuff
end

Now since I upgraded my gem to rspec 1.8 today, the empty example is
failing with the error ArgumentError in “should do something someday”:
block not supplied

Is this by design?

What’s the recommended way to deal with these pending examples? write
a block and call pending within it?

cheers,
Matt

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On 9 Oct 2008, at 01:18, David C. wrote:

What’s the recommended way to deal with these pending examples?
write a
block and call pending within it?

That’s how we used to do it before rspec started treating blockless
examples as pending. It will band-aid your problem so you can
progress. But what you’re experiencing is not what is expected, nor am
I able to reproduce it.

Is this a rails app? Are you mixing gems and plugins perchance?

Yes and yes.

Aha.

I hadn’t bothered to upgrade the plugin as I figured that using ‘spec’
from the command line would run the 1.1.8 version from my gems folder,
and not touch the plugin at all.

Let me upgrade the plugin too and see what happens.

thanks,
Matt

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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Matt W. [email protected] wrote:

   end

Now since I upgraded my gem to rspec 1.8 today, the empty example is failing
with the error ArgumentError in “should do something someday”: block not
supplied

Is this by design?

Absolutely not, though I am not having the same experience (blockless
examples are correctly reported as pending).

What’s the recommended way to deal with these pending examples? write a
block and call pending within it?

That’s how we used to do it before rspec started treating blockless
examples as pending. It will band-aid your problem so you can
progress. But what you’re experiencing is not what is expected, nor am
I able to reproduce it.

Is this a rails app? Are you mixing gems and plugins perchance?

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Matt W. [email protected] wrote:

examples are correctly reported as pending).

Yes and yes.

Aha.

I hadn’t bothered to upgrade the plugin as I figured that using ‘spec’ from
the command line would run the 1.1.8 version from my gems folder, and not
touch the plugin at all.

Let me upgrade the plugin too and see what happens.

Actually, I’d recommend the other way around: get rid of the plugins
and use the 1.1.8 gems for rspec and rspec-rails.

Cheers,
David