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Good idea, why doesnt exist yet? Are we doing it wrong? #6

Closed emilebosch closed 9 years ago

emilebosch commented 9 years ago

Hi ! I supe feel the need for this! any idea why it doesnt exist yet? Are we doing it wrong (tm)

mdub commented 9 years ago

What do you need? What doesn't exist? What are you doing?

emilebosch commented 9 years ago

Well i am having the same issue. Long running cross role workflows selenium tests with Rspec. I am wondering why there isnt another way to or something embedded in order to report on user progress within a long running feature. Usually this means that i am either using it wrong. Or we're just the only ones having this issue. Do you use this in production?

mdub commented 9 years ago

Hey @emilebosch. Sorry, but I'm still confused.

You opened a new issue here, so I'm unsure what you mean by "having the same issue". Are you having a problem using rspec-longrun? Is it not working as advertised? If not, please explain how you tried to use it, what you expected to see, and what you saw instead.

As for "not existing yet", well, rspec-longrun does exist, and does provide an way to "report on user progress within a long running feature". For a quick demo, try checking out this project, then run

bundle install
bundle exec rspec examples
emilebosch commented 9 years ago

No what i am saying is. Why isnt this a part of the default RSPEC suite. The gem is good, the idea is good. But if we are the only one needing it, maybe we use RSPEC wrong? That's what i meant basically.

mdub commented 9 years ago

Ah, now I'm with you. Good question.

I suspect most RSpec users are using it for unit-tests, and that some would say that those of us using it for functional/acceptance tests are "doing it wrong".

I do reckon you're onto something - this should probably be built into RSpec, rather than monkey-patched in, as evidenced by issue#5.

However, since your question isn't an bug, as such, I'm going to close it.