Thanks for the responses. For some reason they showed up in the digest email and yet have still not made it to the RSpec forum at Ruby_forum.com.
I have been trying variants of these suggestions, indeed my very first approach was: def username @username.hll_keycase end However, I am working with authlogic and the UserSession Class of that gem throws an error complaining about a missing username= method when I provide the username method. When I provide username= then it complains about a missing password= method. At the time that I asked my question here I was trying to determine if there was something fundamentally wrong with my approach. Evidently this is not the case so I have now contacted the author directly since these issues are definitely outside the scope of this mailing list. Many thanks for the advice. Regards, -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users