Interaction between pending and before hooks in RSpec

pending_and_before_examples.rb

describe Something do
  before(:each) do
    do_something_before
  end

  it "does one thing" do
    # before will run for this example because rspec doesn't know it is pending
    # until the example is eval'd
    pending
  end

  it "does something else", :pending => true do
    # before will _not_ run for this example
  end

  pending "does yet another thing" do
    # before will _not_ run for this example
  end
end

Can I give :pending a message instead of true/false? I guess any non-nil string would be true.

pending "does yet another thing", message: "waiting on card 353" do

end

it "does one thing", :pending=>'waiting on card 353; do

end

@jbrains - you can do what @zspencer suggests, but it the message doesn't get stored as the pending message (and is therefore not part of the output). Seems like it should :)

If only we had the source code available so we could add the feature!

@jbrains - rspec/rspec-core#540 - please feel free to add commentary and/or enable notifications on that issue.

@zspencer - ha!

@zspencer, @jbrains - I've got this implemented and will push shortly.