Continue after exception in RSpec

Question

Is there any way to have RSpec continue processing specifications after an exception is raised?

This is what my spec task looks like:

SPEC_PATTERN = "spec/**/*_spec.rb"
Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new() do |t|
  t.spec_files = FileList[SPEC_PATTERN]
  t.verbose = true
  t.spec_opts = ["--format", "html:spec/spec_report.html"]
  t.fail_on_error = false

  t.rcov = true
  t.rcov_dir = 'coverage'
  t.rcov_opts = ['--exclude', 'spec']
end

Answer 1

what about using "should raise_exception"?
http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec/1.3.0/classes/Spec/Matchers.html#M000183

Answer 2

Hi Charles - rspec does capture exceptions and report them as failures, in much the same way test/unit does. If you're seeing the task exiting it's because the exception is either outside of the code that rspec is handling, or it might be a syntax error.

HTH, David