I have a test spec which describes
a class and within that has various contexts
each with various it
blocks.
Is there a way I can disable a context
temporarily?
I tried adding a pending "temporarily disabled"
call at the very top within a context
I want to disable, and I did see something about pending when I ran the spec but then it just continued to run the rest of the tests.
This is what I kind of had:
describe Something
context "some tests" do
it "should blah" do
true
end
end
context "some other tests" do
pending "temporarily disabled"
it "should do something destructive" do
blah
end
end
end
but like I said it just went on to run the tests underneath the pending call.
Searching led me to this mailing list thread in which the the creator (?) of rspec says it's possible in rspec 2, which I'm running. I guess it did work but it didn't have the desired effect of disabling all of the following tests, which is what I think of when I see a pending
call.
Is there an alternative or am I doing it wrong?
Best Answer
To disable a tree of specs using RSpec 3 you can:
You can add a message with skip that will show up in the output:
with RSpec 2: