On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Brandon Olivares <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed in several matchers that the matcher method passes self to the > constructor of the class. Then that's used to call several of the methods > used. For instance, in RouteFor, self is passed, and it is used to call > assert_recognizes. > > I'm just curious why this is, and when this is required.
Because assert_recognizes is defined in the context of the example, not inside the scope of the matcher. This is only necessary in such cases that helper methods are outside the matcher itself. HTH, David > > Brandon > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
