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kddeisz
kddeisz

Reputation: 5182

RSpec page variable

How is it that rspec feature tests implicitly know to use methods such as find, within, and fill_in from the page object?

I've written a helper class for some of my rspec tests and wanted to use those methods, and realized that I needed to pass the page object into the method, and then use page.find and the like.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 259

Answers (2)

CuriousMind
CuriousMind

Reputation: 34135

suppose you want to include the following module:

module MailerMacros
  def last_email
    ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.last
  end

  def reset_email
    ActionMailer::Base.deliveries = []
  end
end

to include them, just call config.include(MailerMacros), like this:

RSpec.configure do |config|
   config.include(MailerMacros)
end

now, you should be able to call reset_email() & last_email instead of MailerMacros::reset_email().

Upvotes: 0

Peter Alfvin
Peter Alfvin

Reputation: 29389

RSpec achieves this by including Capybara::DSL in those cases where it wants those methods available. The module is pretty elegant, if you want to take a look at https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/blob/f83edc2a515a3a4fd80eef090734d14de76580d3/lib/capybara/dsl.rb

Upvotes: 1

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