On Oct 21, 2007, at 11:01 am, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> And note that it's running the shared behaviours in this order:
>
> - 'one facet'
> - 'some other facet'
> - 'some other facet'
> - 'one facet'
On a similar note, AGES ago, I promised to submit a patch for
something I ripped out of the rspec-ext gem, which lets you do this:
describe "something" do
facet "one facet" do
it "should do something"
it "and a bit more"
end
facet "another facet" do
it "should do something else"
end
end
to output something like:
something
- one facet: should do something
- one facet: and a bit more
- another facet: should do something else
I found it invaluable in long controller specs that have several
specs for loading, saving, validation etc. It also helps you
logically group related specs together in a spec. I started trying
to update the patch yesterday, but got stuck because the trunk has
moved on. Before I spend too long on it, I have questions:
* is this still useful to anyone here?
* is this good style? I am wondering if instead of
describe Cat do
before(:each) do
@cat = Cat.new
end
facet "prod" do
it "should miaow when sent :prod"
it "should scratch when sent :prod"
end
facet "eat_food" do
it "should eat food when sent :eat_food"
it "should sleep after eating food when sent :eat_food"
end
end
you should write
describe Cat, ".prod" do
before(:each) do
@cat = Cat.new
end
it "should miaow when sent :prod" do
# ...
@cat.prod
end
it "should scratch when sent :prod"
end
describe Cat, ".eat_food" do
before(:each) do
@cat = Cat.new
end
it "should eat food when sent :eat_food"
it "should sleep after eating food when sent :eat_food"
end
ie shift the method call into the "given". Personally I prefer the
first way, as I like to formulate everything as a GWT unless I really
can't. But every time I look at RSpec (example) code it seems like
the recommended way of structuring specs changes.
Ashley
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