Helper tests using DSL not executing

[Brian McQuay]

Aloha,

I'm having a strange problem getting helper tests to actually execute. My test is in tests/helpers/application_helper_test.rb :

require 'test_helper'

describe ApplicationHelper do

  it 'will fail' do

    assert false

  end

end 

Trivial yet when run: bundle exec rake TEST=test/helpers/application_helper_test.rb

It doesn't seem to even see the tests: 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

I have an entire test suite already and the helper tests were working a week ago so I'm a bit baffled as to what happened and how to resolve it. Any ideas?

[Brian McQuay]

I've narrowed this down to the 'it' line. If I raise an exception anywhere outside of an 'it' line the exception is executed. I can even nest describe and context lines and the exception will run. If I put the exception inside the it block it never executes. This code raises an exception:

describe ApplicationHelper do

  describe '#nav_class' do

    context 'fail' do

      raise 'TEST'

      it "must fail" do

        assert fail

      end

    end 

  end 

end

The following code just returns 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

describe ApplicationHelper do

  describe '#nav_class' do

    context 'fail' do

      it "must fail" do

        raise 'TEST'

      end

    end 

  end 

end 

[Daniel Teixeira]

Which version of minitest are you using? I get a similar error while running with new minitest version (5.0.1)...

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[Brian McQuay]

This was on 4.7.4. I just tried upgrading to 5.0.2 but I've got a lot of dependency conflicts. I'm still working through them all so I can't confirm if it still happens on the newer version yet.

[Brian McQuay]

I finally resolved all the dependency issues and can confirm this is still happening with version 5.0.2.

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[Brian McQuay]

Aloha,

I've resolved the issue by backtracking through my git logs and looking at all the Gemfile changes I've made in the past few weeks. I recently added the 'resque_spec' gem which had rspec as a dependency. Removing that gem resolved the problems. Of course it seems obvious in retrospect but minitest and rspec don't play nicely together in the same test.

On Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:09:44 AM UTC-6, Brian McQuay wrote: