Examples for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11354763/how-to-pass-an-instance-variable-to-an-rspec-shared-example/11356758#comment20961965_11356758

company_spec.rb

describe Company do
  before { @company = Company.new }

  describe "when address2" do
    it_behaves_like "a text field", "address2", "a", Company.address2.limit do
      let(:model) { @company }
    end
  end
end

# or...

describe Company do
  let(:company) { Company.new }

  describe "when address2" do
    it_behaves_like "a text field", "address2", "a", Company.address2.limit do
      let(:model) { company }
    end
  end
end

Hello Myron,

I am new in rspec and i am trying to reuse this example.Scenario is similar, i need shared context that will have parameter passed so that I can use it in several tests. I wrote this:

shared_examples_for "shared" do |name|

it "should verify something has name" do
@homepage.text.include?(name)
end

end

in another file I have:

describe "test do
let (:t_name){"Airport"}

it "" do
etc
end

describe "reuse shared" do

it_behaves_like "shared" do
let(:name){t_name}
end
end
end

i tried with setting t_name as @t_name or $t_name but it does not work. I am getting can't convert nil into String.It looks like my variable is not visible in shared script. I also tried without setting let in it behaves like but instead setting it as it_behaves_like "shared", "Airport" and this works but i would really need to use parameters instead of values. Can you help me?

Thanky,
Alma