rspec users - Aug 2010 - Macros and accessing block-variables (rspec2)

Hi,

I''m trying to create an rspec macro (for rspec2) but it cannot access
variables defined in a before-block.
Am I missing something or is it supposed to be like that?

Here''s a full example: http://gist.github.com/509802

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gudleik

The before block and the macro declaration get run in different
contexts.  In the before block, self is an instance of the example
group.  Your macro declaration runs with self set to the example group
itself.

It''s the difference between an instance variable of a Class instance
(since Classes are objects, too), and an instance variable of an
instance of a class.

Myron

On Aug 5, 7:32?am, Gudleik Rasch <gudl... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''m trying to create an rspec macro (for rspec2) but it cannot
access
> variables defined in a before-block.
> Am I missing something or is it supposed to be like that?
>
> Here''s a full example:http://gist.github.com/509802
>
> --
> gudleik
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On Aug 06, 2010, at 1:24 am, Myron Marston wrote:
> It''s the difference between an instance variable of a Class
instance
> (since Classes are objects, too), and an instance variable of an
> instance of a class.
I talked a .Net dev friend of mine through instance ivar + class ivar + class
variables last weekend.  His response was something along the lines of
"Woah!" :)

Gudleik - the simplest, readable change I can think of is to make the answer a
constant[1].  The answer is really a property of the spec, not of the examples,
so it doesn''t belong in the `before` block.  But I suspect the example
you''ve given is a simplified version of something more complex, so
real-world solution may be different.

HTH

Ash

[1] http://gist.github.com/511087

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