rspec users - Apr 2009 - Passing custom arguments to an rspec script. Is this possible?

Hi,

I am writing a rspec script to use with selenium-client. I would like
to pass the script some custom arguments in the command line to change
a few test settings in the script. However, rspec gives errors when I
pass arguments to the script because rspec does not expect them. Is
there any way I can pass custom arguments to an rspec script?

Thanks,
Stephanie

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:06 PM, stephanie <ginormous at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a rspec script to use with selenium-client. I would like
> to pass the script some custom arguments in the command line to change
> a few test settings in the script. However, rspec gives errors when I
> pass arguments to the script because rspec does not expect them. Is
> there any way I can pass custom arguments to an rspec script?
Arbitrary arguments, no. You can require arbitrary files though:

spec --require path/to/config/file my_script.rb

In which case you could configure things in different config files.

Would that work for you?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephanie
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:06 PM, stephanie <ginormous at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am writing a rspec script to use with selenium-client. I would like
>> to pass the script some custom arguments in the command line to change
>> a few test settings in the script. However, rspec gives errors when I
>> pass arguments to the script because rspec does not expect them. Is
>> there any way I can pass custom arguments to an rspec script?
>
> Arbitrary arguments, no. You can require arbitrary files though:
>
> spec --require path/to/config/file my_script.rb
>
> In which case you could configure things in different config files.
>
> Would that work for you?
The other alternative would be:

ruby my_script.rb --custom-arg

To get that to work, the args have to come after my_script.rb and
my_script.rb would need to require ''spec/autorun''.
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stephanie
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>> rspec-users mailing list
>> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
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>>
>

Thanks, I''ll check out both options. -Stephanie

On Apr 22, 4:37?pm, David Chelimsky <dchelim... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:06 PM, stephanie <ginorm... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am writing a rspec script to use with selenium-client. I would like
> > to pass the script some custom arguments in the command line to change
> > a few test settings in the script. However, rspec gives errors when I
> > pass arguments to the script because rspec does not expect them. Is
> > there any way I can pass custom arguments to an rspec script?
>
> Arbitrary arguments, no. You can require arbitrary files though:
>
> spec --require path/to/config/file my_script.rb
>
> In which case you could configure things in different config files.
>
> Would that work for you?
>
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Stephanie
> > _______________________________________________
> > rspec-users mailing list
> > rspec-us... at rubyforge.org
> >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
>
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