How can I validate exits and aborts in RSpec?

Question

I am trying to spec behaviors for command line arguments my script receives to ensure that all validation passes. Some of my command line arguments will result in abo

Answer 1

Thanks for the answer Markus. Once I had this clue I could put together a nice matcher for future use.

it "should exit cleanly when -h is used" do
  lambda { ::MyGem::CLI.execute( StringIO.new, ["-h"]) }.should exit_with_code(0)
end
it "should exit with error on unknown option" do
  lambda { ::MyGem::CLI.execute( StringIO.new, ["--bad-option"]) }.should exit_with_code(-1)
end

To use this matcher add this to your libraries or spec-helpers:

RSpec::Matchers.define :exit_with_code do |exp_code|
  actual = nil
  match do |block|
    begin
      block.call
    rescue SystemExit => e
      actual = e.status
    end
    actual and actual == exp_code
  end
  failure_message_for_should do |block|
    "expected block to call exit(#{exp_code}) but exit" +
      (actual.nil? ? " not called" : "(#{actual}) was called")
  end
  failure_message_for_should_not do |block|
    "expected block not to call exit(#{exp_code})"
  end
  description do
    "expect block to call exit(#{exp_code})"
  end
end