How do I mark a Capybara feature test as pending?

Question

I expect these tests not to "FAIL", but be marked as pending. Perhaps I am not using pending or the correct directive for Capybara specifically?

feature 'Tenant Scoping ' do

  scenario "displays only Tenant A's things" do
    pending
  end

  scenario "displays only Tenant B's things" do
    pending
  end

end

Here's the output when run:

Tenant Scoping
  displays only Tenant A's things (FAILED - 1)
  displays only Tenant B's things (FAILED - 2)

Failures:

  1) Tenant Scoping  displays only Tenant A's things FIXED
     Expected pending 'No reason given' to fail. No Error was raised.
     # ./spec/features/tenants/scopingtest_spec.rb:3

  2) Tenant Scoping  displays only Tenant B's things FIXED
     Expected pending 'No reason given' to fail. No Error was raised.
     # ./spec/features/tenants/scopingtest_spec.rb:7

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2 examples, 2 failures

Answer 1

Just replace 'scenario' with 'xscenario'.

Only drawback is that it will mark the entire feature as pending, instead of each individual spec. I have not found a way around this.

Answer 2

As of RSpec 3, pending examples are considered a failure if they pass. Try using skip instead of pending to completely skip those specs.

See Notable Changes in RSpec 3 for more info.