Taking advantage of RSpec's "let" in before blocks

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Inside before :each blocks you can refer to variables that you introduce via let later on.

They do not need to be defined ahead of your before block and can be different for individual sections.

It works just like that:

describe User do
  describe '#locked?' do
    
    before :each do
      subject.should_receive(:current_plan).and_return plan
    end
    
    context 'when expiring today' do
      let(:plan) { stub(:expiry => Date.today) }
      it 'should be false' do
        subject.should_not be_locked
      end
    end
    
    context 'when expired yesterday' do
      let(:plan) { stub(:expiry => Date.yesterday) }
      it 'should be true' do
        subject.should be_locked
      end
    end
    
  end
end

Note this does not work for local variables you set in your it blocks.

Arne Hartherz
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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2010-09-30 12:26)