rspec users - Sep 2012 - load global variable so I can access in spec files

In my spec_helper, I want to load yaml file to a variable, and then be able
to use that in my tests.

spec_helper.rb:


RSpec.configure do |config|

end


config = YAML::Load(......)




some_spec.rb

describe ''blah'' do

  it "should be...." do
    MyClass.new( config[''test''] )
  end

end


How can I do this?
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> How can I do this?
If it''s truly something that just needs to be loaded once and then is
used without mutation in any number of tests, you might just set it to
a constant in spec_helper.rb:

CONFIG = YAML.load("...")

MyClass.new(CONFIG)

-- 
Andy Lindeman
http://www.andylindeman.com/

I do have it in my spec_helper, does it have to be inside the RSpec.config
block?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Andy Lindeman <alindeman at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > How can I do this?
>
> If it''s truly something that just needs to be loaded once and then
is
> used without mutation in any number of tests, you might just set it to
> a constant in spec_helper.rb:
>
> CONFIG = YAML.load("...")
>
> MyClass.new(CONFIG)
>
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> Andy Lindeman
> http://www.andylindeman.com/
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Not if it''s a constant. You''ll need to make sure it starts
with a capital
letter for it to be interpreted as such by Ruby; otherwise it''s just a
local variable.

On Thursday, September 27, 2012, S Ahmed wrote:
> I do have it in my spec_helper, does it have to be inside the RSpec.config
> block?
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Andy Lindeman <alindeman at
gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, ''cvml'', ''alindeman at
gmail.com'');>
> > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at
gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, ''cvml'', ''sahmed1020 at
gmail.com'');>>
>> wrote:
>> > How can I do this?
>>
>> If it''s truly something that just needs to be loaded once and
then is
>> used without mutation in any number of tests, you might just set it to
>> a constant in spec_helper.rb:
>>
>> CONFIG = YAML.load("...")
>>
>> MyClass.new(CONFIG)
>>
>> --
>> Andy Lindeman
>> http://www.andylindeman.com/
>> _______________________________________________
>> rspec-users mailing list
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''cvml'',
>> ''rspec-users at rubyforge.org'');>
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>
>
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