RSpec 2 example group block scope

Testing RSpec
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Hi again

As part of the refactoring I’m doing, I’m writing out quite a bit of
metaprogramming. The easiest way to prove constant lookup is working is
to create a new class in an example group, and use its name. But the
scope of the example group definition appears to be the containing
module, which gives the following behaviour:

module MyModule
describe “MyClass” do
class TestClass; end

  # This passes
  it "has access to the test class" do
    expect {
      TestClass
    }.to_not raise_error
  end

  # This fails
  it "hides the test class somewhere?" do
    TestClass.name.should_not eq "MyModule::TestClass"
  end
end

end

module MyModule
describe “MyClass doing something else” do
# This fails
it “has a different scope to the example above” do
expect {
TestClass
}.to raise_error(NameError)
end
end
end

I’ve got a few questions:

  • Is this intended behaviour, or just merely the way RSpec 2 happens to
    work?

  • Would a more unique scope be useful? (To me it would, obviously…
    don’t know about the tradeoff in general though)

  • Has this changed since RSpec 1.3? (I guess I could install and find
    out…)

Cheers
Ash

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