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adambsg
adambsg

Reputation: 131

passing a command line argument into RSpec

In ruby how do you pass in a variable to use in Rspec.configure via the command line? if I try something like env SETUP=blah rspec spec/debug_spec.rb I will get the error block in <top (required)>': uninitialized constant SETUP (NameError). I get the same outcome attempting to get the value with temp = SETUP and temp = ENV[SETUP] in Rspec configure. I want to use this variable to guide how a number of global variables are setup. Something like tags is not suitable in my use case.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 835

Answers (1)

Mario Carrion
Mario Carrion

Reputation: 672

I feel you're just missing the quotes for the string (that's why you get the NameError exception), so

If your command line is like this:

SETUP=blah rspec spec/debug_spec.rb

The in your spec_helper.rb, you would use it like this:

temp = ENV['SETUP']

Upvotes: 2

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