I missed one other one that you'll find handy. voters.should have(2).items
Take a look at http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec/1.3.0/classes/Spec/Matchers.html because there's a lot of useful stuff... On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Pete Hodgson wrote: > Pat, Thanks for the response. > > On Feb 23, 1:43 pm, Pat Maddox <mailingli...@patmaddox.com> wrote: >> I'm going to argue that your design is off, and then ignore the rest of your >> post :) > > Fair enough :) The 'design' in my example was made up on the spot to > try and illustrate the kind of issues I've been coming up against > without lots of irrelevant detail. I agree that the code has all sorts > of silly issues. > >> >> Also, RSpec has two mechanisms for testing collections the way you want (so >> I guess I'm not ignoring your post after all). >> > > Thanks for pointing me towards the include and =~ matchers. This was > part of what I was looking for, and would solve a lot of the issues > I've hit in the past. > > That said, I still feel that it would be helpful to have some way of > applying a matcher against the elements of a collection. I will just > have to come up with a more plausible example... :) > > Cheers, > Pete > _______________________________________________ > 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
