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Usage
Code
Make your rspec output look more interesting!
(yes we had too much spare time at our hands… 
)
# spec/spec_helper.rb
# encoding: UTF-8
if defined? RSpec::Core::Formatters::ProgressFormatter
RSpec::Core::Formatters::ProgressFormatter.class_eval do
DOTS = ['☘','⚘']
def example_passed(example)
output.print green(DOTS[rand(DOTS.size)])
end
end
end
So far our convention has been
describe :method_name do
...
end
But this has some obvious drawback like separation of instance/class methods.
I hope we can now all agree on the unambiguous convention Mr Heinrich found in a great rspec presentation:
- use “description” for non-methods
- use pound “#method” for instance methods
- use dot “.method” for class methods
This also makes prettier specdoc output 
If you noticed spork startup getting slower when switching to Rails 2.3, your not alone 
- Views are eager loaded
- app/ is eager loaded (when config.cache_classes is on)
Without hack: 18s startup
With hack: 2s startup
Try it
#spec/spec_helper.rb
begin
require 'spork/app_framework/rails'
module Spork::AppFramework::Rails::NinjaPatcher
# views are preloaded spork must be restarted for view changes
def delay_eager_view_loading
puts "removed because i am too slow..."
end
# do not preload application files
# alternatively urn off config.cache_classes
def delay_app_preload
::Rails::Initializer.send(:define_method, :load_application_classes) do
end
end
end
rescue
end
Spork.prefork do
...
If you got a big project, chances are spec_helper is required through different ways, File.expand_path / File.join() / … which results in it being loaded several times!
Try it:
#spec_helper.rb print "YEP!"
rake spec -> “YEP!YEP!YEP!YEP!YEP!YEP!YEP!YEP!……”
So how to prevent it ?
Unify!
Unify it to ‘spec/spec_helper’ which is dead-simple, can be copied without modification (like adding ‘../../’) and prevents duplicate spec_helper calls
#unify_spec_helper.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'rake'
files = FileList["spec/**/*_spec.rb"].reject{|file|File.directory?(file)}
files.each do |file|
lines = File.readlines(file)
lines = lines.map do |line|
if line =~ /require.*spec_helper/
"require 'spec/spec_helper'\n"
else
line
end
end
File.open(file,'w'){|f| f.write lines.join('') }
end
Run: ruby unify_spec_helper.rb
