The 'its' construct seems to not be working for me. I have narrowed it down to a basic example that I think should be working. Note that when I use a normal 'it' block with a subject in it, that works fine.
Any insights would be welcome: http://gist.github.com/407789 Cheers, Tom. == Below is just a copy of the content of the gist == >: cat spec/controllers/simple_spec.rb require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper') describe HomeController do context "looking at an email" do subject do mail = TMail::Mail.new mail.from = "ori...@example.com" mail end # This passes as expected. it "should have the correct from address" do subject.from.should == ['ori...@example.com'] end # I don't understand why this fails. its(:from) { should == ['ori...@example.com'] } end end >: ./script/spec spec/controllers/simple_spec.rb -b .F 1) NoMethodError in 'HomeController looking at an email from should == ["ori...@example.com"]' undefined method `from' for #<HomeController:0x102bd7c40> /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/subject.rb:25:in `send' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/subject.rb:25:in `subject' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/subject.rb:91:in `should' ./spec/controllers/simple_spec.rb:14: /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_methods.rb:40:in `instance_eval' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_methods.rb:40:in `execute' /Users/tomtt/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p249/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:53:in `timeout' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_methods.rb:37:in `execute' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:214:in `run_examples' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:212:in `each' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:212:in `run_examples' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:103:in `run' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:23:in `run' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:22:in `each' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:22:in `run' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/options.rb:152:in `run_examples' /my/project/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/command_line.rb:9:in `run' ./script/spec:10: Finished in 0.031435 seconds 2 examples, 1 failure Attachments: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/4745/simple_spec.rb -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users