Question

I have a test suite that runs across several versions of a software application. I’d like to be able to tag those tests that vary based on different versions so that the filters I have set up only run the tests for this particular version.

I’m looking for something like:

describe "the magic page", :version=>["all-magic", "some_magic"]
   it "exists!"
end

describe "the magic page", :version=>["no-magic"]
   it "does not exist!"
end

Rspec.configure do |config|
  this_version= some_version_parameter_passed_in || "no_magic"
  config.filter_run :version includes this_version
end

Obviously, that doesn’t work, but it should give you an idea of what I’m trying to accomplish.

Answer 1

You can actually do this with Rspec. Take a look at the docs, and try something like this:

describe "the magic page", :all-magic => true, :some-magic => true
   it "exists!"
end

describe "the magic page", :no-magic => true
   it "does not exist!"
end

Then to run the tests with the magic tag you can use the command:

rspec --tag magic

Or you can edit your .rspec:

--tag magic

Does this work for you?