Bypass_rescue and its inverse

Testing RSpec
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Hey,

I’ve just started using rspec-rails 1.2 and the bypass rescue
declaration is wonderful - by default I tend to write controller which
raise exceptions (in exceptional circumstances), along with before-
filters as guard clauses, so being able to switch off rescue from
(which I properly spec separately) is a real boon.

Such a boon, in fact, that I immediately shoved it into a global
before :each block so that my controller specs would do what I expect
by default.

However, that makes my speccing of the rescue_from code a little
trickier. Is there an easy way to do the inverse: to switch the
default Rails behaviour back on, on command?

Thanks,

Matt

PS

I guess the other option is to figure out how to declaratively spec
rescue from (which I, and judging by forks of the
rspec_on_rails_matchers plugin, several others figured out for before
filters)…

Bit unawake yet, may follow up with an answer to my own question when
I’ve imbibed the caffeine.

–
Matt P. | Design & Code
| http://www.reprocessed.org/

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On 20 Mar 2009, at 06:46, Matt P. wrote:

rspec_on_rails_matchers plugin, several others figured out for
before filters)…

Bit unawake yet, may follow up with an answer to my own question
when I’ve imbibed the caffeine.

As predicted, I woke up and implemented a declarative matcher (will
also work on anything which includes ActiveSupport::Rescuable). Up in
rough form at

. It won’t work if you’ve used a block with rescue_from, but I decided
I could live without that…

Matt

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Matt P. | Design & Code
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