On 9/12/2007 3:55 PM, Evan David Light wrote: > Disclaimer: The following are observations by a relatively new user > (couple of weeks) of RSpec and not intended as RSpec trollbait. Also, > forgive me if similar topics have been discussed elsewhere on the > mailing list. I at least did the due diligence of a quick search. > > That said... > > I've been positively thrilled with RSpec for use outside of Rails. It > has been in my attempts to use it within Rails that I have begun to > question whether and how it can buy me much more than Test::Unit. > > I recently began using RSpec to drive the design, in BDD fashion, of a > Rails app. Believing that behavior is best measured from the user's > experience, I started by writing a View spec. I considered this a > top-down approach. Were I still using Test::Unit, I likely would have > started in the same place that I usually do out of habit: the Model. > > However, the more googling that I've done, the more that I noticed that > most RSpec articles, where they addressed Rails, were primarily focused > on the Model. I began to wonder, "are people using RSpec much like > people were using Test::Unit?" I've seen that some people eschew View > Specs <http://tuples.us/2007/08/17/my-life-with-bdd-and-rspec/>. > However, in lieu of that, how does one spec the interface that should, > in theory, drive the design of the application? > > Ultimately, I'm left with similar perspective to Jordan's: View specs > will be brittle. They'll span multiple Behaviors as there will be at > least one per action -- leading me to wonder if BDD, or at least RSpec, > is necessarily the best way to try to spec the View. However, > Controllers and Models seem as though they would work reasonably well. > > Can anyone recommend some approaches for tackling BDD starting from the > View down?
I think it's really hard right now for exactly the reasons you mention. I think Story Runner will make it much, much easier. Jay _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
