Aliasing

describe and context are the default aliases for example_group. You can define your own aliases for example_group and give those custom aliases default metadata.

RSpec provides a few built-in aliases:

* `xdescribe` and `xcontext` add `:skip` metadata to the example group in order to temporarily disable the examples. * `fdescribe` and `fcontext` add `:focus` metadata to the example group in order to make it easy to temporarily focus the example group (when combined with `config.filter_run :focus`.)

Custom example group aliases with metadata

Given a file named “nestedexamplegroupaliasesspec.rb” with:

RSpec.configure do |c| c.alias_example_group_to :detail, :detailed => true end RSpec.detail "a detail" do it "can do some less important stuff" do end end RSpec.describe "a thing" do describe "in broad strokes" do it "can do things" do end end detail "something less important" do it "can do an unimportant thing" do end end end

When I run rspec nested_example_group_aliases_spec.rb --tag detailed -fdoc

Then the output should contain:

a detail can do some less important stuff a thing something less important