> Good question. One answer is that it can change, it just needs a code > change and application restart. > > Basic business case is that someone will set the postage threshold before > the application is deployed. However they could choose any value. So I want > to test what happens when the application is setup with different values > e.g. zero because all postage is free and £30 cos postage is free if you > spend £50 or more. > > Currently we do not want to do form based admin for this setting (and > similar ones) because such a change would be very infrequent, so we are > currently happy to redeploy to make the change. >
I would do something like this: http://gist.github.com/102586 > > 2009/4/27 aslak hellesoy <aslak.helle...@gmail.com> > > >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:00 PM, 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 >>> >>> >> Since it's a constant - how can it possibly change? And therefore - why >> are you testing it with different values? >> >> >>> >>> I've considered a number of ideas, but seem to keep on getting into >>> complex solutions for what I assume is something very simple. >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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