Shoulda: How would I use an instance variable outside of a setup or should block?

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Published on 2010-04-20T01:10:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 1:13 UTC
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I'm trying to do something like the following:

@special_attributes = Model.new.methods.select # a special subset
@special_attributes.each do |attribute|
  context "A model with #{attribute}"
    setup do
      @model = Model.new
    end
    should "have some special characteristic"
      assert @model.method(attribute).call
    end
  end
end

However, @special_attributes is out of scope when running the unit tests, leaving me with a nil object on line 2. I can't figure out where to define it to bring it in scope. Any thoughts?

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