Re: [rspec-users] load global variable so I can access in spec files

2012-09-27 Thread Andy Lindeman
Not if it's a constant. You'll need to make sure it starts with a capital letter for it to be interpreted as such by Ruby; otherwise it's just a local variable. On Thursday, September 27, 2012, S Ahmed wrote: > I do have it in my spec_helper, does it have to be inside the RSpec.config > block? >

Re: [rspec-users] load global variable so I can access in spec files

2012-09-27 Thread S Ahmed
I do have it in my spec_helper, does it have to be inside the RSpec.config block? On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Andy Lindeman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S Ahmed wrote: > > How can I do this? > > If it's truly something that just needs to be loaded once and then is > used wit

Re: [rspec-users] load global variable so I can access in spec files

2012-09-26 Thread Andy Lindeman
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S Ahmed wrote: > How can I do this? If it's truly something that just needs to be loaded once and then is used without mutation in any number of tests, you might just set it to a constant in spec_helper.rb: CONFIG = YAML.load("...") MyClass.new(CONFIG) -- And