Derive example description from shared context

[Jason Karns]

We have a shared context that is included automatically by the presence of particular metadata.

I'm wondering if it's possible for the shared context to append or otherwise mutate the example's description with additional text. (Basically we want presence of the included context to be explicit in the example description itself, as well as to include pieces of the metadata itself.)

RSpec.describe Something, auth: :customer do

  it "does thing"

end

shared_context "authenticated" do

  let(:current_user) { logs_in_as self.class.metadata[:auth] }

  # hoping for a before or around hook that can insert contextual description at this scope of the example

end

config.include_context "authenticated", :auth

Desired result: "Something authenticated as a customer does thing"

Have others done something similar or have alternatives?

Thanks,

Jason Karns

[Jon Rowe]

Hiya

Shared examples automatically wrap their examples in a context which includes contextual information, but I don’t think shared_context can do that, they’re basically more of an “include” of spec parts, you also can’t modify the description of the existing context so I think you’d need to change the strategy here, or look into modifying shared_context to have some sort of metadata the reporter uses.

Cheers

Jon

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