On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM, rhydiant <rhydi...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Makes sense... So would you tend to use double() in place of mock()/ > stub()?
That's pretty much what I do all the time now, though I haven't gone back and changed all the specs I've ever written. Yet :) > > On May 27, 1:22 pm, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On May 26, 2010, at 10:01 PM, rhydiant wrote: >> >> > Given that RSpec has the following methods to create test doubles ... >> >> > double(:my_test_double) >> > mock(:my_mock_object) >> > stub(:my_stub) >> >> double(), mock(), and stub() all return the same type of object: a test >> double (actually, it's a Mock, but that's for legacy reasons - the class >> name might change to Double in the future). The difference between "mocking" >> and "stubbing" is at the method level. I'd actually like to deprecate mock() >> and stub() in the long run to reduce the noise. >> >> > Is there a way to/ plans to introduce a similar syntax for null >> > objects? >> >> > null_object(:my_null_object) >> >> You could easily do this yourself, like this: >> >> def null_object(*args) >> double(*args).as_null_object >> end >> >> I don't think I'd want to add this to rspec directly, for the noise >> reduction reasons I wrote above. >> >> > Instead of mock(:bar, :is_null_object => true) or >> > mock(:foo).as_null_object >> >> FYI - :null_object => true is deprecated (you'll start seeing deprecation >> notices in the next beta if you're using it). >> >> > I think this would be cleaner, what do you think? >> >> Clean is relative. It might be slightly less typing, but I don't know that >> it's any more expressive, and IMO it increases the noise level. Another >> thing to consider is that there are other "decorators" that use this same >> pattern: double(name).as_something. >> >> That all make sense? >> >> Cheers, >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
