Inheriting test cases vs. mixing them in

Testing RSpec
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I’ve come across an interesting blog post showing how to inherit
tests:

How does it stack against the usual mixing/shared_examples_for,
beautifully described in

http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/11/07/specifying-mixins-with-shared-example-groups-in-rspec-2/

I.e., what are the cases where you’d do inheritance vs
shared_examples_for?

Cheers,
Alexy

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On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:53 PM, braver [email protected] wrote:

I.e., what are the cases where you’d do inheritance vs
shared_examples_for?

Cheers,
Alexy

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I see no use case for class inheritance in RSpec. If you need to include
some methods in a spec, use the include config option:

module MySpecMethods
def foo
end
end

RSpec.configure do |config|
config.include MySpecMethods

to restrict to controllers, for example

config.include MySpecMethods, :type => :controller
end