I'm trying to inject a rule which is configured in a spring context into a spock specification.

@ContextConfiguration(locations=["spring.xml"]) class TestSpec extends Specification { @Rule @Inject //@Autowired public ActivitiRule activitiRule;

@Deployment
def "Process test"() {
when:
//...
then:
//...
}

}

The problem is that spock instantiates the rule by itself without respecting the @Inject or @Autowired annotation.

>Interesting use case. The problem is that Spock's Rule extension invokes the rule before Spock's Spring extension injects it. It may be possible to fix this. If you don't mind, please submit an issue at http://issues.spockframework.org. For now, only injection of MethodRules (as opposed to TestRules) will work as expected.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17545264/injecting-a-rule-into-a-spock-specification

The problem is that spock instantiates the rule by itself without respecting the @Inject or @Autowired annotation.

That's not the problem. Anyway, thanks for reporting the issue.