Thomas R. Koll
Posted on November 2, 2018
Best if I start with a confession: The number of shared context or share examples that I have in my spec is a low digit.
No idea why I missed that trend, but with budget-fox.com I promise to do better and cut down on repetition in my specs.
If your controller specs are a bit like mine they might look like this:
# ...
let(:user) { Fabricate(:user) }
before do
sign_in user, scope: :user
end
# ...
That's actually pretty slim but with this very same pattern repeated over a few dozen controller there's something in rspec-core that's useful: shared
context
If you repeat the same let
and before
calls over and over again, it's best to put them into your spec/support
folder, in my case in sign_in_context.rb
. The context is then included from the controller spec.
# only argument is:
# scope (defaults to :user)
RSpec.shared_context "sign in user", :shared_context => :metadata do |args|
signed_in_scope = args.fetch(:model, :user)
let(signed_in_scope) do
Fabricate(signed_in_scope)
end
before :each do |c, a|
sign_in self.send(signed_in_scope.to_sym), scope: signed_in_scope
end
end
And in the controller spec:
RSpec.describe Admin::UsersController, type: :controller do
include_context 'sign in user', model: :admin
it "GET #index" do
# ...
end
end
Posted on November 2, 2018
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