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BenMorganIO
BenMorganIO

Reputation: 2046

Setting the Scope of a Describe block in Rspec to a Method

I'm trying to write some concise RSpec tests. The tests are as follows:

require 'spec_helper'

describe Video::Base do
  subject { Video::Base }

  its(:base_uri) { should match(/api\.wistia\.com/) }
  its(:base_uri) { should match(/https/) }

  its(:format) { should == :json }

  describe :default_params do
    its([:api_password]) { should_not be_nil }
  end
end

The tests are looking quite nice, but the describe :default_params fails. I know that RSpec is capable of calling its([api_password]), but the issue is is that the target must be a hash. In this example, you see that I am calling the key onto the Video::Base class and not the #default_params method. How would I go about setting it to call its([deafult_params]) onto Video::Base.default_params and not onto Video::Base?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 130

Answers (1)

BroiSatse
BroiSatse

Reputation: 44675

You need to override the subject:

describe :default_params do
  subject { Video::Base.default_params }

  its([:api_password]) { should_not be_nil }
end

Or, to have more flexibility, use super:

describe :default_params do
  subject { super().default_params }

  its([:api_password]) { should_not be_nil }
end

Upvotes: 2

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