The root namespace is now RSpec instead of Spec, and the root directory
under lib is rspec instead of spec.
Typically in spec/spec_helper.rb, configuration is now done like this:
RSpec.configure do |c|
# ....
end
The command to run specs is now rspec instead of spec.
rspec ./spec
The new runner for rspec-2 comes from Micronaut.
In rspec-2, every example and example group comes with metadata information
like the file and line number on which it was declared, the arguments passed to
describe and it, etc. This metadata can be appended to through a hash
argument passed to describe or it, allowing us to pre and post-process
each example in a variety of ways.
The most obvious use is for filtering the run. For example:
# in spec/spec_helper.rb
RSpec.configure do |c|
c.filter_run :focus => true
end
# in any spec file
describe "something" do
it "does something", :focus => true do
# ....
end
end
When you run the rspec command, rspec will run only the examples that have
:focus => true in the hash.
You can also add run_all_when_everything_filtered to the config:
RSpec.configure do |c|
c.filter_run :focus => true
c.run_all_when_everything_filtered = true
end
Now if there are no examples tagged with :focus => true, all examples
will be run. This makes it really easy to focus on one example for a
while, but then go back to running all of the examples by removing that
argument from it. Works with describe too, in which case it runs
all of the examples in that group.
The configuration will accept a lambda, which provides a lot of flexibility in filtering examples. Say, for example, you have a spec for functionality that behaves slightly differently in Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9. We have that in rspec-core, and here's how we're getting the right stuff to run under the right version:
# in spec/spec_helper.rb
RSpec.configure do |c|
c.exclusion_filter = { :ruby => lambda {|version|
!(RUBY_VERSION.to_s =~ /^#{version.to_s}/)
}}
end
# in any spec file
describe "something" do
it "does something", :ruby => 1.8 do
# ....
end
it "does something", :ruby => 1.9 do
# ....
end
end
In this case, we're using exclusion_filter instead of filter_run or
filter, which indicate inclusion filters. So each of those examples is
excluded if we're not running the version of Ruby they work with.