I have a describe block like this:
describe "Documents" do
subject { page }
let (:course) { FactoryGirl.create(:course) }
describe "new" do
before do
visit new_course_document_path(course)
fill_in "Name", with: "TestDocument"
attach_file "Original document", "#{Rails.root}/spec/fixtures/03_GUI_concurrency.pdf"
end
it { should have_selector('title', text:"Upload document")}
it { should have_selector('h1', text:"Upload document")}
describe "when clicking upload" do
before { click_button "Upload Document" }
it "should have the document name" do
subject.should have_selector('p', text: "TestDocument")
end
it "should have 22 pages" do
subject.should have_selector('.page', count: 22)
end
describe "when visiting the course page" do
before { visit course_path(course) }
it { should have_selector 'li', text: "TestDocument"}
end
end
end
The test is quite expensive since significant work is done on saving the document. That's fine, but it's even slower since it's actually doing that upload 3 times. So, the obvious thing to do is to make the before blocks into before :all blocks - but when I do that, only the first it {} block is executed correctly and the ones afterward are executing on an empty page so they fail.
Are before :all blocks supposed to work with capybara, and if so what am I doing wrong here?
Capybara resets session after each example run, so when you moved visit new_course_document_path(course)
into before (:all)
block, you had nothing to visit starting from a second example.
I would recommend to run only that tests you're working on. This could be achieved with a RSpec tag option or guard-rspec, and it'll save you a LOT of time.
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