Method: RSpec::Core::Pending#pending

Defined in:
lib/rspec/core/pending.rb

#pending ⇒ void #pending(message) ⇒ void

Note:

When using pending inside an example body using this method hooks, such as before(:example), have already be run. This means that a failure from the code in the before hook will prevent the example from being considered pending, as the example body would not be executed. If you need to consider hooks as pending as well you can use the pending metadata as an alternative, e.g. it "does something", pending: "message".

Marks an example as pending. The rest of the example will still be executed, and if it passes the example will fail to indicate that the pending can be removed.

Examples:

describe "some behaviour" do
  # reported as "Pending: no reason given"
  it "is pending with no message" do
    pending
    raise "broken"
  end

  # reported as "Pending: something else getting finished"
  it "is pending with a custom message" do
    pending("something else getting finished")
    raise "broken"
  end
end

Parameters:

  • message (String) (defaults to: nil) —

    optional message to add to the summary report.



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# File 'lib/rspec/core/pending.rb', line 62

def pending(message=nil)
  current_example = RSpec.current_example

  if block_given?
    raise ArgumentError, <<-EOS.gsub(/^\s+\|/, '')
      |The semantics of `RSpec::Core::Pending#pending` have changed in
      |RSpec 3. In RSpec 2.x, it caused the example to be skipped. In
      |RSpec 3, the rest of the example is still run but is expected to
      |fail, and will be marked as a failure (rather than as pending) if
      |the example passes.
      |
      |Passing a block within an example is now deprecated. Marking the
      |example as pending provides the same behavior in RSpec 3 which was
      |provided only by the block in RSpec 2.x.
      |
      |Move the code in the block provided to `pending` into the rest of
      |the example body.
      |
      |Called from #{CallerFilter.first_non_rspec_line}.
      |
    EOS
  elsif current_example
    Pending.mark_pending! current_example, message
  else
    raise "`pending` may not be used outside of examples, such as in " \
          "before(:context). Maybe you want `skip`?"
  end
end