Even my suggestion wouldn't be a sufficient spec. What about completely wrong mac addresses? Empty addresses, too many characters, invalid characters?
It is not for nothing that the rspec test cases are called examples - you may define any number of example inputs and expected outputs that are required to describe the behavior of the object to be specified. barsalou schrieb: > It's interesting that this thread has started because I just ran into > this problem. > > The error I got was: > > NoMethodError in 'Signup she be a valid mac address' > protected method `normalize_mac' called for #<Signup:0x408c0434> > ./spec/models/signup_spec.rb:10: > > > Here's the spec: > > describe Signup do > before(:each) do > @signup = Signup.new > end > > it "she be a valid mac address" do > @signup.mac_address = "00-11-22-33-44-55-66" > normalized = @signup.normalize_mac(@signup.mac_address) > @signup.mac_address.should == normalized > end > end > > > I have a model that has mac_address attribute. In the before > validation, I wanted to make the mac address have colons(:) instead of > whatever the user typed in which could have spaces between, dashes, > nothing at all. > > My thought was to just remove all of those special characters validate > it against a regex then if it passed the regex check produce the mac > address with the colons included. > > And, if I understand it properly, Pat's statement is saying that I > really shouldn't be protecting that method...which would fix my problem. > > So my question is then, how do you know when to use protected and > private or do I just do what Rick suggested and use send? > > I just realized this isn't really an rspec question...so I'll just move along. > > Mike B. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
