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Ruby

Suprasanna Mishra
Suprasanna Mishra
2,730 Points

'Deprecation warnings' with rspec - best course of action?

Hi everyone!

Curious what the best course of action is while working through the Ruby tests module with rspec/capybara. I'm getting deprecation errors that isn't a dealbreaker but would be nice to clean up and address.

Here they are:

Warning: Running `gem pristine --all` to regenerate your installed gemspecs (and deleting then reinstalling your bundle if you use bundle --path) will improve the startup performance of Spring.
Running via Spring preloader in process 91388
[DEPRECATION] `last_comment` is deprecated.  Please use `last_description` instead.
[DEPRECATION] `last_comment` is deprecated.  Please use `last_description` instead.
[DEPRECATION] `last_comment` is deprecated.  Please use `last_description` instead.
[DEPRECATION] `last_comment` is deprecated.  Please use `last_description` instead.
[DEPRECATION] `last_comment` is deprecated.  Please use `last_description` instead.
[DEPRECATION] `last_comment` is deprecated.  Please use `last_description` instead.
[DEPRECATION] `last_comment` is deprecated.  Please use `last_description` instead.
[DEPRECATION] `last_comment` is deprecated.  Please use `last_description` instead.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/controllers/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb ./spec/features/todo_lists/destroy_spec.rb ./spec/features/todo_lists/edit_spec.rb ./spec/helpers/todo_lists_helper_spec.rb ./spec/models/todo_list_spec.rb ./spec/requests/todo_lists_spec.rb ./spec/routing/todo_lists_routing_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/edit.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/index.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/new.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/show.html.erb_spec.rb
.........*.............*....DEPRECATION WARNING: `named_routes.helpers` is deprecated, please use `route_defined?(route_name)` to see if a named route was defined. (called from block (4 levels) in <top (required)> at /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/controllers/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb:75)
........DEPRECATION WARNING: `named_routes.helpers` is deprecated, please use `route_defined?(route_name)` to see if a named route was defined. (called from block (3 levels) in <top (required)> at /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/controllers/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb:156)
.....

Pending:
  TodoListsHelper add some examples to (or delete) /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/helpers/todo_lists_helper_spec.rb
    # No reason given
    # ./spec/helpers/todo_lists_helper_spec.rb:14
  TodoList add some examples to (or delete) /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/models/todo_list_spec.rb
    # No reason given
    # ./spec/models/todo_list_spec.rb:4

Deprecation Warnings:

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RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup#example is deprecated and will be removed
in RSpec 3. There are a few options for what you can use instead:

  - rspec-core's DSL methods (`it`, `before`, `after`, `let`, `subject`, etc)
    now yield the example as a block argument, and that is the recommended
    way to access the current example from those contexts.
  - The current example is now exposed via `RSpec.current_example`,
    which is accessible from any context.
  - If you can't update the code at this call site (e.g. because it is in
    an extension gem), you can use this snippet to continue making this
    method available in RSpec 2.99 and RSpec 3:

      RSpec.configure do |c|
        c.expose_current_running_example_as :example
      end

(Called from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/capybara-2.1.0/lib/capybara/rspec.rb:20:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>')
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RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup#example is deprecated and will be removed
in RSpec 3. There are a few options for what you can use instead:

  - rspec-core's DSL methods (`it`, `before`, `after`, `let`, `subject`, etc)
    now yield the example as a block argument, and that is the recommended
    way to access the current example from those contexts.
  - The current example is now exposed via `RSpec.current_example`,
    which is accessible from any context.
  - If you can't update the code at this call site (e.g. because it is in
    an extension gem), you can use this snippet to continue making this
    method available in RSpec 2.99 and RSpec 3:

      RSpec.configure do |c|
        c.expose_current_running_example_as :example
      end

(Called from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/capybara-2.1.0/lib/capybara/rspec.rb:21:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>')
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The semantics of `RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup.pending` are changing in RSpec 3.
In RSpec 2.x, it caused the example to be skipped. In RSpec 3, the example will
still be run but is expected to fail, and will be marked as a failure (rather
than as pending) if the example passes, just like how `pending` with a block
from within an example already works.

To keep the same skip semantics, change `pending` to `skip`.  Otherwise, if you
want the new RSpec 3 behavior, you can safely ignore this warning and continue
to upgrade to RSpec 3 without addressing it.

Called from /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/helpers/todo_lists_helper_spec.rb:14:in `block in <top (required)>'.

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The semantics of `RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup.pending` are changing in RSpec 3.
In RSpec 2.x, it caused the example to be skipped. In RSpec 3, the example will
still be run but is expected to fail, and will be marked as a failure (rather
than as pending) if the example passes, just like how `pending` with a block
from within an example already works.

To keep the same skip semantics, change `pending` to `skip`.  Otherwise, if you
want the new RSpec 3 behavior, you can safely ignore this warning and continue
to upgrade to RSpec 3 without addressing it.

Called from /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/models/todo_list_spec.rb:4:in `block in <top (required)>'.

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`stub_model` is deprecated. Use the `rspec-activemodel-mocks` gem instead. Called from /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/views/todo_lists/show.html.erb_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'.
`stub_model` is deprecated. Use the `rspec-activemodel-mocks` gem instead. Called from /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/views/todo_lists/new.html.erb_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'.
`stub_model` is deprecated. Use the `rspec-activemodel-mocks` gem instead. Called from /Users/Super/code/odot/spec/views/todo_lists/edit.html.erb_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'.
Too many uses of deprecated '`stub_model`'. Pass `--deprecation-out` or set `config.deprecation_stream` to a file for full output.


If you need more of the backtrace for any of these deprecations to
identify where to make the necessary changes, you can configure
`config.raise_errors_for_deprecations!`, and it will turn the
deprecation warnings into errors, giving you the full backtrace.

9 deprecation warnings total

Finished in 1.82 seconds
41 examples, 0 failures, 2 pending

Thanks! :)