[rspec-users] Assertions for asynchronous behaviour

Alex Chaffee
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:41:54 -0000

Sure. "wait_for" is a method Brian Takita and I originally wrote for
use in Selenium tests, then IIRC it made it into the Selenium gem and
now lots of libraries use it (or their own version -- I make no patent
claim on polling :-)). The wait_for I remember allowed you to
customize the failure message. Let me go see if it''s on GitHub or
anything...

Ah, here''s one:
https://github.com/pivotal/selenium/blob/master/lib/selenium/wait_for.rb

(Maybe I should put it in Wrong.)

 - A

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Matt Wynne <matt at mattwynne.net>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> In GOOS[1] they use an assertion called assertEventually which samples the
> system for a success state until a certain timeout has elapsed. This allows
> you to synchronise the tests with asynchronous code.
> Do we have an equivalent of that in the Ruby / RSpec world already? I know
> capybara has wait_until { } but that''s fairly rudimentary - the
failure
> message isn''t very helpful. Is there anything else already out
there?
> [1]?http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/
> cheers,
> Matt
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