Stories without shared state feel clunky to me, because we would never speak that way.
I also had a similar urge, don't know if it's a "programmer" urge: Given a user With the name 'josh' And the password 'sesame' ...so I don't end up with an explosion of steps for 'a user with x', 'a user with y', 'a user with x and y' . So there are named things, but we also often want to refer to the anonymous "last mentioned thing" like we do in speech. So I end up doing things like this sometimes: Given /a user/ do shared_state["he"] = shared_state["she"] = shared_state["it"] = User.new end ...is that bad? Cheers, Josh On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Matt Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Going back to the debate about keeping state between steps, I found myself > with the mild urge to be able to write this today: > Given there is a user > And the user has 20 friends > Then I should see a thumbnail of each of the users's friends > Which should be a link to the user profile page for that friend > > NB: An idiom in this which may be songkick-only but was inspired by what > we've read on this list, and worth explaining: "the user" as in "the user > has 20 friends", means User.first in rails. If there's more than one user > when this step runs, it will flunk, because the English no longer works. > > So anyway, what I was thinking was that it would be nice to be able to > refer to the last thing I said I should be able to see, and decorate it with > more specification in a subsequent step or steps. > > Obviously, I could roll these into one long Then step, but maybe this is > more elegant... > > Just thinking out loud. I have no idea what the steps code would look > like. > > WDYT? > > cheers, > Matt > ---- > http://blog.mattwynne.net > http://songkick.com > > In case you wondered: The opinions expressed in this email are my own and > do not necessarily reflect the views of any former, current or future > employers of mine. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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