Using shared_examples within a module namespace without deprecation warning

[Hongli Lai]

I have tests that basically look like this:

module Foo

  shared_examples_for "foo" do

    it "works" do

      true

    end

  end

  describe "bar" do

    it_behaves_like "foo"

  end

end

The reason why the RSpec commands are inside "module Foo" is because my namespace name is very long ("PhusionPassenger"), and I want to avoid prepending the namespace name to every class I refer to. Since a recent RSpec version, I'm getting a "Accessing shared_examples defined across contexts is deprecated" warning. How do I avoid this warning while still avoiding prepending my namespace before every class reference?

I cannot just "include PhusionPassenger" in the global context. That will pollute the global namespace with all sorts of classes, potentially overwriting existing ones.

[Myron Marston]

Hey Hongli,

In RSpec 2.14 we added a feature that allows users to scope shared example groups to the context they are declared in:

http://myronmars.to/n/dev-blog/2013/07/rspec-2-14-is-released#core_shared_example_groups_are_scoped_to_the_context_they_are_defined_in

For backwards compatibility with other 2.x releases, it still supports using a shared example group from outside the scope if it cannot find it in the current scope, and prints a deprecation warning in this case.  Unfortunately, there was a slight bug in this that caused the warning to be wrongly printed in your case.  This was reported a bit ago and we have a fix ready:

https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/pull/1023

I plan to cut another 2.14.x patch release soon (probably in the next day or two) with this fix in it.  Sorry for the trouble.

Myron

[Myron Marston]

I just released rspec-core 2.14.5 with this fix.