I guess I'll just have to use a global, perhaps trying to freeze them in
production. Just thought there might be something that might be an
alternative. Might have a look at using a stub if that doesn't work. Thanks
for your input
2009/4/27 David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Andrew Premdas <aprem...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Currently I have a very simple constants implementation being loaded as a
> > Rails initialiser
> >
> > module MVOR
> > module Postage
> > THRESHOLD = BigDecimal.new('6.99')
> > RATE = BigDecimal.new('30.00')
> > end
> > end
> >
> >
> > My scenarios of my postage feature want to deal with two situations when
> the
> > THRESHOLD has been set to zero and to '6.99'. The question is how can I
> set
> > the threshold in my step_definition. So I want to implement
> >
> > Given the postage threshold is 0.00
> > Given the postage threshold is 6.99
> >
> >
> > I've considered a number of ideas, but seem to keep on getting into
> complex
> > solutions for what I assume is something very simple.
>
> If THRESHOLD can change, then it is not, by definition, a constant.
> It's just a global variable.
>
> I'd change it to a method and then stub that method for a given
> scenario (even though stubbing is a Cucumber no-no ;) ).
>
> WDYT?
>
> David
>
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
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