rspec users - Mar 2010 - describe blocks without before(:all) / after(:all)

Hi All,

We have many specs like the pattern given below.

The problem is that it''s slow, because each inner context block will
execute
the before(:all) in the outer describe block.

Is there a way to setup an inner context block that does not execute the
before(:all) and after(:all), but does execute the before(:each) and
after(:each) ?

Based on some playing around (removing inner context blocks) we think this
would speed up our tests by a factor of 10.


Cheers,
Jimmy

-----

describe Project do
  before(:all) do
    # statements that set up an object graph, relatively slow
  end

  after(:all) do
    # tear down object graph
  end

  it { should ... }
  it { should ... }
  it { should ... }
  it { should ... }

  context "target calculations" do
    before(:each) do
      # non-expensive statements, just setting up for example the subject,
Time.zone, locale, etc.
    end

    it { should ... }
    it { should ... }
    it { should ... }
  end

  context "duration calculations" do
    before(:each) do
      # non-expensive statements
    end

    it { should ... }
    it { should ... }
    it { should ... }
  end

  context ...
  context ...
  [ etc. ]

end
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On Mar 29, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Jimmy Soho wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We have many specs like the pattern given below.
> 
> The problem is that it''s slow, because each inner context block
will execute the before(:all) in the outer describe block.
> 
> Is there a way to setup an inner context block that does not execute the
before(:all) and after(:all), but does execute the before(:each) and
after(:each) ?
Not in rspec-1, but that''s how rspec-2 works by default.

I don''t want to change this in rspec-1 because I don''t plan to
release any more major 1.x releases, and this would risk being a
compatibility-breaking change.

HTH,
David

> Based on some playing around (removing inner context blocks) we think this
would speed up our tests by a factor of 10.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jimmy
> 
> -----
> 
> describe Project do
>   before(:all) do
>     # statements that set up an object graph, relatively slow
>   end
>   
>   after(:all) do
>     # tear down object graph
>   end
> 
>   it { should ... }
>   it { should ... }
>   it { should ... }
>   it { should ... }
>   
>   context "target calculations" do
>     before(:each) do
>       # non-expensive statements, just setting up for example the subject,
Time.zone, locale, etc.
>     end
>     
>     it { should ... }
>     it { should ... }
>     it { should ... }
>   end
>   
>   context "duration calculations" do
>     before(:each) do
>       # non-expensive statements
>     end
>     
>     it { should ... }
>     it { should ... }
>     it { should ... }
>   end
> 
>   context ...
>   context ...
>   [ etc. ]
> 
> end
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