Jay Levitt wrote: > David Chelimsky wrote: >> On 8/30/07, Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Edward Ocampo-Gooding wrote: >>>> David Chelimsky wrote: >>>>> On 8/30/07, Edward Ocampo-Gooding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> Has anyone else run into a problem with trying to use mock_model in >>>>>> spec/lib ? >>>>>> For some reason, I can take the same spec, put it in spec/models, have >>>>>> it run >>>>>> fine, but put it in spec/lib, and have it complain about not being able >>>>>> to find >>>>>> #mock_model >>>>> mock_model is not supported outside of model, view, controller and >>>>> helper specs. Feel free to submit a feature request if you think it >>>>> should be. >>>> I can kind of understand why it's not, but it'd be good to have an error >>>> message >>>> that pops informing the user saying as such. >>> Also note that in trunk, you can work around this with >>> >>> describe my_lib_function, :behaviour_type => :controller (or model, or >>> helper, or view) >>> >>> which is very useful for lib functions that are used in one of those >>> contexts. >> Correct - that is the correct usage. >> >> the lib directory is for stuff not related specifically to rails, in my view > > I don't know how common that view is, though - in general, I think Rails > folks use lib/ for classes that aren't part of a model (be it an > ActiveRecord model or a "fake" model like a shopping cart). They're > often non-Rails-specific, but f'rinstance I have an enum object that > interacts with ActiveRecord, but isn't itself a model. Eventually might > be a plugin, but for now it's only used in one app, so it lives in lib/.
Yep, I happen to be one of those folks who use lib/ for classes that aren't models. > I created an enhancement request, but I can make a patch if you can > remind me where on earth the directories are special-cased - I couldn't > find it for the life of me. Thanks Jay. It sounds like we'd make a new DSL module for Libs with the same behaviour as Models. Edward _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
