On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jarmo Pertman <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I need to pass something from before :all to formatter. I know that i > could use options hash from spec and then get the value back in > formatter, but it doesn't work when i'm doing it from before :all. > > So, this work: > > # in spec > before :each do > options[:something] = 1 > end > > # in formatter > def example_failed(example, counter, failure) > puts example.options[:something] # outputs 1 > super > end > > But if i try to do the same thing from before :all, then it doesn't > work. > > So i looked into the source of RSpec and in example/example_methods.rb > in method set_instance_variables_from_hash there is a line which > ignores some instance variables among with others @_proxy, which has > this option hash initialized in before :all and that's why it's not > getting into the formatter - in other words it is just dropped. > > Is this a bug or expected behaviour? If it's expected then what's the > reason and how could i get the desired results of passing something to > formatter from before :all? > > Can't we just pass this options hash along?
It was never intended that you would set values on options from inside an example and access them in a formatter. You've happened on something that just happens to work because we're using a standard Ruby data structure. The reason it won't work for before(:all) is that before(:all) gets run before any of the examples are run - so it doesn't have access to the options hash, which is created per example in rspec-1. What sort of information are you trying to get to your formatter? Maybe there is a different way to do it. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
