Sending rails errors to rspec output

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I am using Capybara in combination with rspec for integration testing
of rails apps.

I would like any errors (routing errors, errors in a controller,
anything) generated during a test to be printed the same as “puts”
statements in rspec’s output. Is this possible? Additionally, is this
a reasonable idea, or am I just being silly?

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On Dec 16, 2011, at 8:46 AM, LeeQ wrote:

I am using Capybara in combination with rspec for integration testing
of rails apps.

Even though you are using Capybara, they are still just specs. No reason
why “puts” won’t work.

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Puts does work. That’s not what I’m looking for.

I want all error messages (like undefined local variable or methodjunk’
for…) to show up in my rspec out put in *the same way as*puts`.

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On Dec 22, 2011, at 8:25 AM, LeeQ wrote:

Puts does work. That’s not what I’m looking for.

I want all error messages (like undefined local variable or method junk’
for…) to show up in my rspec out put in the same way asputs`.

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So basically you want the exception message to display in the output,
but then have things “continue on” like it wasn’t an exception?

I don’t see the point in that, but you could do it with rescue.

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On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:33 AM, LeeQ wrote:

Ah, I see what you are saying. But no, I still want the exception to act like
an exception. My problem is that I’ll have a test fail for reasons unknown, and I
then I need to open the test logs to find the exception. I’d like those
exceptions to show up in my test output so I don’t have to dig for
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Okay I see what you’re talking about now. Take a look at this:

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On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:33 PM, LeeQ [email protected] wrote:

Ah, I see what you are saying. But no, I still want the exception to act like
an exception. My problem is that I’ll have a test fail for reasons unknown, and I
then I need to open the test logs to find the exception. I’d like those
exceptions to show up in my test output so I don’t have to dig for them.

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You need to configure the logger to log to standard out. Check out this
link & modify as appropriate for your Rails version:

Pat

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Ah, I see what you are saying. But no, I still want the exception to
act
like an exception. My problem is that I’ll have a test fail for reasons
unknown, and I then I need to open the test logs to find the exception.
I’d like those exceptions to show up in my test output so I don’t have
to
dig for them.