Nested before_each specs

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Hello all,

Does anyone know if it is possible to nest specs such that they call before_each only once for the nested describe block? The docs around testing seem a bit incomplete.

What I would like is:

describe "Page Tests" do
  before_each {
    puts "Set up some test data..."
  }

  describe "CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE" do
    before_each {
      puts "START TRANSACTION..."
    }

    after_each {
      puts "ROLLBACK TRANSACTION!"
    }

    it "one" do
      true.should be_truthy
    end

    it "two" do
      true.should be_truthy
    end

    it "three" do
      true.should be_truthy
    end
  end
end

To set up the test data only once… but instead I get:

Set up some test data...
START TRANSACTION...
.ROLLBACK TRANSACTION!
Set up some test data...
START TRANSACTION...
.ROLLBACK TRANSACTION!
Set up some test data...
START TRANSACTION...
.ROLLBACK TRANSACTION!
2

Pretty sure you want to use before_all instead.

https://crystal-lang.org/api/master/Spec/Methods.html#before_all(&block)-instance-method

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3

Wow. I swear I tried that before but was getting weird results, like it ran for every spec including those outside this file. I must have messed up the context though because it is working fine now.

Thank you and let us not speak of this again :upside_down_face: