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How to Repair an Old Gem (Part 4) - Upgrade Autotest

Checkout Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the series first! The ancient, venerable, and useful autotest gem died, but was reborn as rspec-autotest. Let’s migrate the library to use it! We still use the old .autotest hook file, but we replace the old contents: # autotest config for rspec # see: https://github.com/rspec/rspec/wiki/autotest Autotest.add_hook(:initialize) {|at| at.add_exception %r{^\.git} # ignore Version Control System at.add_exception %r{^pkg} # ignore gem pkg dir # at.

December 11, 2022 Read

How to Repair an Old Gem (Part 3) - Upgrade RSpec

Checkout Part 1, and Part 2 of the series first! Now that we can bundle install, and have a passing test suite with a very old version of RSpec, we need to upgrade RSpec. This is most easily done with a tool called transpec. Before we can setup transpec we need to upgrade to a minimum version of Ruby. Some generic requirements are: RSpec must be at least 2.14 or later.

December 11, 2022 Read

Introducing rspec-stubbed_env

ENV stubbing via a shared context for more powerful tests. Installation Add this line to your application’s Gemfile: gem 'rspec-stubbed_env', group: :test And then execute: $ bundle Or install it yourself as: $ gem install rspec-stubbed_env You must configure RSpec to use the :expect syntax, or some compatible alternative. RSpec.configure do |config| config.expect_with :rspec do |c| c.syntax = :expect end end Require the library in your spec/test helper somewhere: require 'rspec/stubbed_env' Usage ENV stubbing:

October 6, 2018 Read

Introducing rspec-block_is_expected

Allows you to use block_is_expected similarly to how you would use is_expected if a block was wrapping the subject. This gem does one very simple thing very well. It allows you to use block_is_expected similarly to how you would use is_expected if a block was wrapping the subject. Supports the same versions of Ruby that RSpec does, 1.8.7 - current ruby-head, as well as the JRuby equivalents. subject { Integer(nil) } it('raises') { block_is_expected.

October 1, 2018 Read

Introducing rspec-pending_for

Mark specs pending or skipped for specific Ruby engine (e.g. MRI or JRuby) / version combinations. Easiest to just show you: it("blah is blah") do pending_for(engine: "rbx") pending_for(engine: "ruby", versions: "2.1.5") pending_for(engine: "jruby", versions: "2.2.2", reason: "due to a bug in Ruby") pending_for(engine: "ruby", versions: "2.0.0", reason: "because I don't have the time") expect("blah").to eq "blah" end Installation Add this line to your application’s Gemfile: gem 'rspec-pending_for' And then execute:

October 22, 2015 Read