On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Adam R <[email protected]> wrote: > > Howdy! I'm relatively new to RSpec, but I've worked with Watir and Ruby for > about 5 years now. My company is redesigning a web app from the ground up, > so I'm taking the opportunity to leverage RSpec instead of Test/Unit. > > I've run into a problem with RSpec organization that I just can't sort out > on my own, so I'm hoping it's straightforward enough that someone can help > me out. > > Basically I have a single HTML page with an organized list of links. Each > link points to a new page with a single verifiable item on it. The script > collects all the links into an array, then iterates over the array, loading > each link and verifying a single piece of text. That's the easy part. > > Here's the relevant code for what I believe to be the closest attempt right > now: > > @links = Array.new > @browser = Watir::Browser.new > @browser.goto(page) > > @browser.link.each do |link| > �...@links << [link.name, link.href] > end > > �[email protected] do |name, link| > describe name do > it "should contain the word #{name}" do > �[email protected] link > �[email protected](:id, /example/).text.should include(name) > end #it > end #desc > end #...@links > > I've tried a combination of methods -- putting all of this code inside a > describe block, etc, but I end up with the variables being unknown because > they're not inside the same describe or it block (even when set to $global), > or the describe/it blocks being layered incorrectly. > > I'm sure there's a simple solution to the format, but unfortunately I > haven't been able to Google or RDoc my way to an answer. I appreciate any > advice you can offer!
describe "something" do it "does something" do end end That's the simplest format - everything should go in the example (it block), not directly inside the describe block. HTH, David > > Thanks, > Adam > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/RSpec-and-Watir%2C-easy-script-structure-question-tp27758607p27758607.html > Sent from the rspec-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
