ensure_with_explicit_return.rb

def test_method_explicit_return
  raise "This should bubble up"
ensure
  return "No problem here"
end

def test_method_implicit_return
  raise "This should bubble up"
ensure
  "No problem here"
end

describe "explicit return" do
  it "returns 'No problem here?'" do
    test_method_explicit_return.should == "No problem here"
  end

  it "raises an exception?" do
    expect {
      test_method_explicit_return
    }.should raise_exception(RuntimeError, "This should bubble up")
  end
end

describe "implicit return" do
  it "returns 'No problem here?'" do
    test_method_implicit_return.should == "No problem here"
  end

  it "raises an exception?" do
    expect {
      test_method_implicit_return
    }.should raise_exception(RuntimeError, "This should bubble up")
  end
end

gistfile1.txt

jp@usonia:~/workspace/scratch$ rspec --format=doc --color swallowed_exception.rb

explicit return
  returns 'No problem here?'
  raises an exception? (FAILED - 1)

implicit return
  returns 'No problem here?' (FAILED - 2)
  raises an exception?

Failures:

  1) explicit return raises an exception?
     Failure/Error: expect {
       expected RuntimeError with "This should bubble up" but nothing was raised
     # ./swallowed_exception.rb:19:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

  2) implicit return returns 'No problem here?'
     Failure/Error: raise "This should bubble up"
     RuntimeError:
       This should bubble up
     # ./swallowed_exception.rb:8:in `test_method_implicit_return'
     # ./swallowed_exception.rb:27:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.56132 seconds
4 examples, 2 failures

Failed examples:

rspec ./swallowed_exception.rb:18 # explicit return raises an exception?
rspec ./swallowed_exception.rb:26 # implicit return returns 'No problem here?'