rspec users - Sep 2008 - Make classes in a module available to examples

Hi

Sorry if this is documented somewhere, I can''t find it on rspec.info  
or Google.

Say I have this code (simple example based no the RSpec site):
   module Bank
     class Account
       def balance
         0
       end
     end
   end

   describe "A new account" do
     # what goes here?

     before do
       @account = Account.new
     end

     it "should have a balance of $0" do
       @account.balance.should == 0
     end
   end

...what can I put in the describe block to make the Account class  
visible?  I tried include, but that doesn''t work (uninitialized  
constant Account).

I don''t want to include into the global namespace, because
I''ve got a
module hierarchy that could be several layers deep, and I don''t want  
to flatten it out.

Thanks,
Ashley



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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Ashley Moran
<ashley.moran at patchspace.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry if this is documented somewhere, I can''t find it on
rspec.info or
> Google.
>
> Say I have this code (simple example based no the RSpec site):
>  module Bank
>    class Account
>      def balance
>        0
>      end
>    end
>  end
>
>  describe "A new account" do
>    # what goes here?
>
>    before do
>      @account = Account.new
>    end
>
>    it "should have a balance of $0" do
>      @account.balance.should == 0
>    end
>  end
>
> ...what can I put in the describe block to make the Account class visible?
>  I tried include, but that doesn''t work (uninitialized constant
Account).
>
> I don''t want to include into the global namespace, because
I''ve got a module
> hierarchy that could be several layers deep, and I don''t want to
flatten it
> out.
Either fully qualify the class name in the spec:

before(:each) do
  @account = Bank::Account.new
end

or put the example group in the same module

module Bank
  describe "A new account" do
...
  end
end

The RSpec codebase uses the second approach, which I personally prefer.

Pat

On 5 Sep 2008, at 15:58, Pat Maddox wrote:
> module Bank
>  describe "A new account" do
> ...
>  end
> end
>
> The RSpec codebase uses the second approach, which I personally  
> prefer.
Aha, that''s good enough for me

Right now I''m fully qualifying everything, which is too verbose for my
liking

Thanks Pat
Ashley

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