Re: [rspec-users] Putting shared specs in a separate file

[Nick Hoffman]

On 2009-01-17, at 14:16, LesFreeman wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to move shared specs out of my spec_helper and into
separate files. I found an article about the process here:http://
blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2008/04/15/automagical-rspec-shared-
example-loading-from-separate-files
Essentially, I created a spec/shared directory, then a file in that
dir called controller_authorization_specs.rb

#controller_authorization_specs.rb
module ControllerAuthorizationSpecs
 shared_examples_for "test" do
 end
end

Then, in my spec helper, some code to load the shared spec files:
#spec_helper.rb
...
Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/**/shared/*'].each { |group|
 require group
 include Object.const_get(group.match(/.*[\/]{1}([\w]*)
[.rb]./).captures.first.camelize)
}
...


Which seems dandy. But, I get these kind of errors:
/Users/lesfreeman/Sites/equvents/spec/shared/
controller_authorization_specs.rb:4: undefined method
`shared_examples_for' for ControllerAuthorizationSpecs:Module
(NoMethodError)
        from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require'
        from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`require'
        from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:155:in `require'
        from /Users/lesfreeman/Sites/equvents/spec/spec_helper.rb:11
        from /Users/lesfreeman/Sites/equvents/spec/spec_helper.rb:10:in
`each'
        from /Users/lesfreeman/Sites/equvents/spec/spec_helper.rb:10
        from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require'
        from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`require'
         ... 6 levels...
        from ./spec/controllers/../spec_helper.rb:7:in `each'
        from ./spec/controllers/../spec_helper.rb:7
        from spec/controllers/sessions_controller_spec.rb:1:in `require'
        from spec/controllers/sessions_controller_spec.rb:1

I'm sure there's an easy solution, but I'm scratching my head. Any
help would be greatly appreciated

Hi Les. What I do is put this stuff into modules in spec/shared/ , and  
use #include to bring in the example methods, and #extend to bring in  
the example group methods. For example:
http://gist.github.com/48492

Does that help at all?
Nick
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