Hi List,
I’m using rspec’s shared example groups in a rails project (rails
2.02, rspec(on_rails) 1.1.3) and I’m getting lots of errors of the
following kind when(before) running the specs:
(RAILS_ROOT)/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/extensions/main.rb:78:
warning: already initialized constant ContentExamples
(RAILS_ROOT)/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/extensions/main.rb:78:
warning: already initialized constant EditViewExamples
The shared example groups are defined in files like spec/shared/
foo_examples.rb
and declared as
share_as :FooExamples do…end
(and then included in other example groups with “include FooExamples”)
They’re loaded in spec_helper.rb with the following:
Dir.glob(File.join(File.dirname(FILE), ‘shared’, ‘*.rb’)).each do |
shared_example|
require shared_example
end
I’m guessing that’s what needs to change. Has anyone else seen these
warnings? I find them quite annoying and would like to get rid of
them. Any pointers would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Gerrit
On Feb 7, 2008 11:41 PM, Gerrit Kaiser
[email protected] wrote:
The shared example groups are defined in files like spec/shared/
I’m guessing that’s what needs to change. Has anyone else seen these
warnings? I find them quite annoying and would like to get rid of
them. Any pointers would be much appreciated.
Hey Gerritt.
The likely culprit is in ExampleGroupRunner, which uses the load
command (not require) and therefore reloads anything that might be in
the spec path. That is necessary to support drb, and unlikely to
change, so it is up to you to ensure that shared example groups don’t
get reloaded. How you do that depends on how you are running your
specs and what other config changes you’ve made.
So … how are you running your specs? Have you made any additional
config changes in terms of what files get loaded?
David
David,
thanks for your prompt reply.
On 09/02/2008, at 3:43 AM, David C. wrote:
so it is up to you to ensure that shared example groups don’t
get reloaded. How you do that depends on how you are running your
specs and what other config changes you’ve made.
So … how are you running your specs? Have you made any additional
config changes in terms of what files get loaded?
No changes in terms of loaded files. I’m normally running them via
autotest, but invoking “script/spec spec/**/*_spec.rb” directly gives
the same warnings (which is what I find weird, considering the shared
example groups don’t live in *_spec.rb files.
Here’s my spec.opts:
–colour
–format
progress
–format
profile:doc/spec/slowest_examples
–format
html:doc/spec/report.html
–loadby
mtime
–reverse
Thanks for you help,
Gerrit