In addition - Ben thanks for the link, I just checked it out. Rubular
seems like an awesome little tool and I will bookmark the page. I
really appreciate all of the help and hope I can return the favor one
day.
Thanks!
Chris
On Jul 8, 10:43 pm, internetchris <ch...@silhouettesolutions.net>
wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I appreciate the replies. After I posted I realized I was looking at
> ruby code. It seems this is where my learning curve is going to take a
> leap. I understand Rails, I am starting to understand Rspec and
> Cucumber, and I understand programming. This is my second language,
> but it's the first time I have had to learn something new. I come from
> a foxpro background and it seems I need to dig into the Ruby language
> a little more. I keep forgetting that Rails is simply a framework and
> not the language - the same is true for Rspec. I hope to laugh at my
> mistakes in a year or two :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris Sund
>
> On Jul 7, 9:49 am, ssmithstone <stephen.smithst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I to am in the same situation and the meaning of the /^ $/ is a
> > regular expression so it matches yours features so in your features is
> > you do
>
> > Give some random text I guess some more random test
>
> > the code would run against that given method, hope that makes sense
> > and that's my view of the code
>
> > On Jul 7, 4:35 pm, Chris Sund <ch...@silhouettesolutions.net> wrote:
>
> > > Hey Everyone,
>
> > > I've been working my way through the Rspec book trying to absorb and
> > > understand everything. This is my first time with BDD and I'm just
> > > trying to figure out some simple syntax stuff. My questions revolve
> > > around some of the syntaxing used in the book. These are really simple
> > > questions.
>
> > > 1.) Given /^the secret code is (. . . .)$/ do |code|
> > > Is (. . . .) simply a place holder? could I use something like
> > > (- - - -) instead, or does it actually mean something?
>
> > > 2.) Then /^the mark should be (.*)$/ do |mark|
> > > Similar question....what does .* represent?
>
> > > 3.) In the following example why don't I pass |guess| to the When
> > > statement? I'm sure it has something to do with the (code.split)
> > > syntax, I'm just not sure what.
>
> > > When /^I guess (. . . .)$/ do |code|
> > > @game.guess(code.split)
> > > end
>
> > > 4.) And finally what does ("\n") do?
>
> > > Then /^the mark should be (.*)$/ do |mark|
> > > @messenger.string.split("\n").should include(mark)
> > > end
>
> > > Thank You!
>
> > > Chris
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