How do I call a specific test from another file in ruby

Question

I Wrote a general testing file which includes a few tests. I want to write a few files that will use those tests, each file will run specific tests (not all of them).

A test example:

class AccountBase 
 describe "TC_ACCOUNT" do
  it "Fill info Fields" do
  #test here
  end
 end
end

Lets call it baseTests.rb. Now I have another file - infoTest.rb . How can I call "Fill info Fields" from within infoTest Thanks.

Answer 1

It sounds like you need Rspec's shared examples: Shared examples on Relish, or in the Rspec API docs

Your example might look something like:

class AccountBase
 shared_examples "TC_ACCOUNT" do
  it "Fill info Fields" do
  #test here
  end
 end
end

And then you could include the shared examples in your infoTest.rb file with:

include_examples "TC_ACCOUNT"

or:

it_behaves_like "TC_ACCOUNT"

The shared example can then be written to check metadata from the context that includes it or accept parameters to its block that are passed in by the including spec, so as to change its behaviour based on which test file it's being included into.