NoTenantSet error raised within an ActsAsTenant.without_tenant block (RSpec + Rails)

[its-fern]

Currently running ActsAsTenant v 1.0.1 on a Rails 7.1 app. We use rspec for testing and recently upgraded rspec-rails from 6.1.2 to 6.1.3. We started running into NoTenantSet errors on this upgrade when we were not before.

For some context, we have a helper set up that allows devs to include a tag in the rspec context to disable the tenant check:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  # Acts as tenant support - check out documenation here:
  # https://github.com/ErwinM/acts_as_tenant#testing
  config.around do |example|
    if example.metadata[:skip_multitenancy]
      ActsAsTenant.without_tenant do
        # ActsAsTenant::Errors::NoTenantSet error raised here
        example.run
      end
    else
      ## ...
    end
  end
end

Devs can then write specs that ignore the tenant check like so:

require "rails_helper"

RSpec.describe SomeModel, type: :model do
  context "without multi-tenancy", skip_multitenancy: true do
    it "allows creating models" do
      expect { SomeModel.create!(name: "foo") }.to change(SomeModel, :count).by(1)
    end
  end

  context "with multi-tenancy" do 
    it "raises an error if no tenant is set" do
      expect { SomeModel.create!(name: "foo") }.to raise_error(ActsAsTenant::Errors::NoTenantSet)
    end
  end
end

I did some digging and I think this might be related to this PR rspec/rspec-rails#2752 (full changelog here). The ActsAsTenant.unscoped? flag is being reset somehow (confirmed this by stepping through the code) so this code block raises:

acts_as_tenant/lib/acts_as_tenant/model_extensions.rb

Lines 20 to 22 in 7e3bd8a

	if ActsAsTenant.should_require_tenant? && ActsAsTenant.current_tenant.nil? && !ActsAsTenant.unscoped?
	raise ActsAsTenant::Errors::NoTenantSet
	end

Any help is appreciated here, and I'm happy to provide more info where I can!

[pond]

This happens because of a bug introduced in RSpec v6.1.3. Temporarily locking your Gemfile to = 6.1.2 will work around it for now. I've submitted rspec/rspec-rails#2773 with more information and an example test case.

[its-fern]

This happens because of a bug introduced in RSpec v6.1.3. Temporarily locking your Gemfile to = 6.1.2 will work around it for now. I've submitted rspec/rspec-rails#2773 with more information and an example test case.

Amazing, thanks @pond!

[pond]

@its-fern Unfortunately things were going really well until a dev stepped in and seems to say that this bug is minor; we're holding it wrong by using hooks as they've been documented in RSpec. I'm not sure I agree, but you well might. Please could you check Jon Rowe's comment and vote accordingly? If ultimately I'm in the minority in my assessment of what should be done here, then of course, the community wins.

EDITED TO ADD: They're still interested in a resolution PR, so I'll work on that today (NZ time).