On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Zach Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, a nice thing about RSpec is that when you do describe an actual > object, ie: "describe Foo", you can determine this by asking the > example group what it's described type is. > > This makes things a lot simpler and cleaner than having to hack away > strings, or guess based on the name of your test. > > Zach > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Zach Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Andy Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Are you willing to provide a simple example? >> >> I'm using the same example as the articled you linked to originally as >> the base. This way you should be able to clearly see the differences. >> >> http://gist.github.com/13804
Here's a variation on that with a helper for defining macros that I'm thinking of adding to rspec. Lemme know what you think: http://gist.github.com/13821 Cheers, David >> >> Zach >> >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> Matt Wynne wrote: >>>> We do something similar to this, though we use a convention to set >>>> @klass to the class being spec'd in the top-level example group, >>>> rather than deriving it as they do in that sample. >>>> >>>> In view specs we also use a convention to always have a do_render >>>> method available, so that we can bring in similarly shared / generated >>>> examples. >>>> >>>> It's great for speccing two sublcasses which have some common >>>> behaviour, where it feels wrong to spec the (abstract) base class. >>> >>> -- >>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rspec-users mailing list >>> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Zach Dennis >> http://www.continuousthinking.com >> http://www.mutuallyhuman.com >> > > > > -- > Zach Dennis > http://www.continuousthinking.com > http://www.mutuallyhuman.com > _______________________________________________ > 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
