On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2008, at 9:43 pm, David Chelimsky wrote: > >> Well, in fairness to wycats, rspec doesn't really offer formal >> extension points that would support this syntax, so he did the best he >> could given what is available. We've had some discussion about this >> and haven't landed anywhere firm yet. >> >> My opinion is that rspec, as it stands right now, needs a bit of >> internal cleanup before we start adding new features like that one. >> Also, the way I'd like to see this go is that rspec exposes a formal >> extension point - some sort of hook into pre and post-processing of >> each example including any arguments it was given. Then the merb >> extension could use a published API rather than monkey patching. > > > Ah, I understand now. I didn't mean my comment in a negative way, just that > Merb has a philosophy of simplicity and transparency, and monkey-patching is > the Rails way to do things. Hence my surprise. And spec code too... if > anything's gonna make me nervous! > > Is the Merb spec syntax (or something like it) something you'd like in the > future? (RSpec 2?)
Not sure about that yet. You can already accomplish the same thing with a variety of existing structures and I think that this structure brings up other questions like: * how about a :when and :then? * how does this impact the output? * etc However, I'm definitely interested in developing and committing to an API that makes it easy to write extensions like this. Then wycats could publish this as a separate extension gem, for example, and those who like it can easily use it w/o concern for the fact that it is monkey patching another library. > > Ashley > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://aviewfromafar.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
