Writing feature inputs in the tabular format has recently been very helpful. However, there are some things that seem kind of funny when writing. For example, let's say we wanted to ensure that certain requests resulted in the access denied page:
Given Joe is a staff member without the 'admin' privilege When I GET /admin as Joe Then I am notified that access was denied The possible variables here based on step implementations are: Given XXXX is a staff member without the 'XXXX' privilege When I XXX XXXX as XXXX Then I am notified that access was denied This requires the More Examples to look like: | name | privilege | request_method | path | name | | Joe | admin | POST | /invoices | Joe | | Joe | admin | PUT | /invoices/1 | Joe | etc... This isn't that bad, but it'd be nice if we could specify only the variable inputs that we care about -- the privilege, the request method and the path. As the scenario involves more steps you have to grow your tabular data, unless I am missing how to do something (which could be the case). It also seems somewhat odd that the first example is the scenario itself. It almost seems like the scenario should define the placeholders and the More Examples section should define all the input data sets. For example: Given Joe is a staff member without the '$privilege$' privilege When I $request$ $path$ as Joe Then I am notified that access was denied Examples: | privilege | request_method | path | | admin | GET | /admin | | admin | POST | /invoices | | admin | PUT | /invoices/1 | It would somewhat rely on using the \$\w+\$ pattern to denote what should be replaced by the Examples input data set. I'm not tied to how the inputs are grabbed, but it seems like moving in this direction allows the tabular inputs to be more streamlined to what you wanted to include in a scenario. WDYT? -- 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
