In RSpec, using let variable inside before :all block
I had the same problem, I have solved it by declaring all my variables as attributes inside the before block:
describe 'index' before(:all) do @company = FactoryGirl.create(:company) @user = FactoryGirl.create(:user, company: @company) sign_in @user visit products_path end...end
Now you can use @user and @company inside your tests, and you shouldn't have any warnings.
I'm not sure what you mean by "this" in "what is the correct way of doing this"? Accessing let and subject within a before(:all) is deprecated and will be removed in RSpec 3 with the following explanation from https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/pull/857:
letandsubjectdeclarations are not intended to be called in abefore(:all)hook, as they exist to define state that is reset between each example, whilebefore(:all)exists to define state that is shared across examples in an example group.
Taking into account Peter's answer I think the correct way is to access the user in a before each block:
before(:each) do sign_in userend