Ben that worked perfectly I appreciate the help. Stephen, I appreciate the encouragement, it feels daunting to be learning all of this at once, but each day I bite off a little more understanding. It's funny you mention scuba diving - "way back when" right out of high school I thought it would be fun to go to school for underwater construction/welding - so I did. I suppose if I was able to tackle that, I will eventually get this. I'm thankful I decided to switch my degree path to computer science after that however. It was an interesting part of my life to say the least. Maybe it's a personality quirk of mine :-)
Thanks! Chris On Jul 20, 9:59 pm, Stephen Eley <sfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Chris > > Sund<ch...@silhouettesolutions.net> wrote: > > > I am finally to the point in the rspec book where it describes how to > > implement controller specs, so I thought what the heck, I'll give it a > > try. > > Heh. Points to you for ambition! You might not have realized this > (because the RSpec book makes it sound like it should *all* be easy) > but starting with a Rails controller spec for your very first spec is > a bit like saying "I was thinking of getting scuba certified... > Ooooh, CAVE DIVING! Let's start with that first!"* > > On the upside, if you start there and really get to *understand* > what's going on, you should be relieved when most of the rest of it is > pretty smooth sailing. There are very few common Ruby idioms that > have such tight coupling as Rails controllers, so very few tasks are > so hard to spec in isolation. You'll almost never have to mock > anything else as ferociously. Model specs in particular will feel > like sunshine and puppies. > > So go you! > > -- > Have Fun, *(Granted, I don't think anyone has ever kicked up silt > while writing a controller spec, lost hold of their guide line, gotten > hopelessly lost, and died many hours later in the cold and dark. Yet. > That only happens to J2EE programmers.) > Steve Eley (sfe...@gmail.com) > ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine > http://www.escapepod.org > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-us...@rubyforge.orghttp://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
