Nesting scenarios with feature specs in Rspec Rails 3

Question

I'm using Rspec Rails with Capybara for testing and I want to use the new feature spec in RSpec Rails 3 as they read more as customer tests and acceptance tests. However, one thing I find missing from the older (Describe/It) style is nesting. When trying to nest scenarios or use background inside any scenario block, I get an undefined method error. Is there anyway I could achieve nesting with feature specs to get something like this (from Michael Hartl's Ruby On Rails Tutorial:

describe "Authentication" do
    subject { page }

    describe "authorization" do
        let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }

        describe "for non-signed in users" do

            describe "when attempting to visit a protected page" do
                before { visit edit_user_path(user) }
                it "should redirect_to to the signin page" do
                    expect(page).to have_title('Sign in')
                end

            describe "after signing in" do
                before do
                    valid_signin user, no_visit: true
                end

                it "should render the desired protected page" do
                    expect(page).to have_title('Edit user')
                end

Or should I be thinking in a different way about integration tests ?

Peter Alfvin Peter Alfvin · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-17T22:33:00

As described in https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/feature-specs/feature-spec, feature corresponds to describe and scenario corresponds to it. So, you can nest instances of feature, but you cannot nest a scenario within a scenario, just as you cannot nest an it within a it.

Nesting scenarios with feature specs in Rspec Rails 3

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