Controller specs should automatically have type about rspec-rails

[dchelimsky]

What do you mean "specify it by hand"?

[iain]

Like this:

describe UsersController, :type => :controller do
end

[dchelimsky]

You can get that like this now:

Rspec.configure do |c|
  c.include Foo, :example_group => {
    :describes => lambda {|described| described < ActionController::Base }
  }
end

Make sense?

[iain]

I can follow what you're doing. Is this a conscious design decision, or just a more global approach or workaround?

[dchelimsky]

rspec-2 is based on Micronaut, which is a complete re-write of the runner. This sort of filtering is built-in, so I'm hesitant to add other ways to do the same thing.

This will be well documented by the time we go 2.0.0-final, but there are a lot of other priorities right now.

I'll leave this open for now and we'll see how it goes.

[dchelimsky]

Add :type => :xxx to metadata for each specialized example group.

• controller
• helper
• mailer
• request
• routing
• view

This supports attaching behaviour to a subset of example groups in a
config block:

RSpec.configure do |c|
  before(:each, :type => :controller) do
    # do something
  end
end

Note that this is not mean you can attach controller spec behaviour to a
group like this:

DOES NOT WORK

describe "something", :type => :controller do

Closed by b3ab2bc.