[Rspec-devel] use case for: setup_once, teardown_once
dastels at daveastels.com
Sun May 28 21:30:23 EDT 2006
On 28-May-06, at 9:16 PM, itsme213 wrote:
> Setup and teardown are called once for each specify.
> Sometimes the setup can be very expensive (e.g. establish a ssh or ftp
> session) and the number of specs large.
This should never be done. You never want your specifications
dependant on a) externsl, b) expensive, and c) nondeterministic/
uncontrollable resources. This is where you would use the mocking
framework to mock the ssh/ftp interface.
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