On Feb 16, 2008 5:19 PM, Gary Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider: > > module X > def initialize(a) > super() > end > end > > describe X do > > it "is a module" do > X.should be_instance_of(Module) > end > end > > This generates an error because #describe tries to include X into the > test harness and the test harness doesn't know about the extra > argument to #initialize. > > The work around is to just use 'describe "X" do' but I spent a bit of > time just trying to figure out what was going on. > > Why is #describe trying to include the module?
That was done initially to support Rails helper specs. As it turns out, I usually wrap add a #helper method that returns self in those cases to make it explicit. So I'm not sure of it's value, but removing it (unfortunately) would probably break myriad specs out there. We should definitely improve the docs though. HTH, David > > Gary Wright > _______________________________________________ > 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
