On 10/14/07, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we all know that the readability of steps isn't great right > now, and in fact there's a very recent thread that discusses just > that. It was that recent thread that prompted me to explore this a > bit. > > The basic idea is that you define step matchers, which have a regex, > and then you match step names against that regex. Kind of tough for > me to explain so I'll just link to some code :) > > spec: http://pastie.caboo.se/107116 > impl: http://pastie.caboo.se/107117 > > Instead of writing > Given "a user named __ who is __ years old", "Pat Maddox", 22 > > it allows you to write > Given "a user named Pat Maddox who is 22 years old" > > I wrote it out as a separate matcher because it was just easiest to do > it that way while I explored this approach, no messing around with > RSpec internals to get it to really work. However if we went this > route the structure would certainly be different. > > Hopefully you can get the idea from the example code. Ideally what I > would like is to write step libraries that are external to the stories > themselves. The stories would be much clearer because the > implementation would not be embedded, and the step names themselves > would make a lot more sense. > > wdyt?
LOL - I just suggested something like this in the other thread you cite. Though your idea strikes me as far more flexible and usable. Well done!!!! Cheers, David > > Pat > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
