Hello!
I'm just a caveman with some caveman questions.
I've been parsing Rspec for quite a while, and I'm writing my first series
of specs. My initial impressions are "Verbose, but understandable. Helpful
and intuitive, but so much to digest." I want to congratulate the folks who
are dedicating a chunk of their lives to writing this, and ask 2 caveman
questions
My first is "Why lambda in rpsec"? It doesn't strike me as "reads like
english" or "easily understandable." I understand it's place in ruby (um,
kind of :), but my thinking is:
lambda { do_something_risky }.should raise_error
would be more understandable (and fun!) written as:
running { something_risky }.should raise_error
My second question is: For those folks who are getting up to speed with ruby
and rails AND digesting rspec along the way, there is a lot of incoming DSL.
As I started with rails before rspec, I found myself using script/console to
check my code, poking at different ways of expressing myself with ruby.
Is there a way to "poke at my specs"? I can load up my test environment, but
can I spec things "live" so that I can find out what works and what doesn't?
I find I'm wasting a chunk of time (as I don't have the DSL even 60% down)
writing specs and getting it wrong. Am I missing a trick, or I.should_have
dsl_down_before_trying.else_return(crying)?
um, thanks for any potential caveman responses - the more caveman
(pragmatic) the better.
sudara
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