On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Myron Marston wrote: > On Jul 30, 2:58 pm, Ashley Moran <ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk> > wrote: >> On 30 Jul 2010, at 5:00 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: >> >>> By all means. >> >> I've started on that and filed a ticket[1]. >> >> One question I have, is I keep calling the Example Group that uses a shared >> block the "host group". Is there already a name for it? I never know what >> to use, and I'm not sure "host group" describes it accurately anyway. >> >> Cheers >> Ash >> >> [1]http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/99 >> >> --http://www.patchspace.co.uk/http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran
> I may be the only one who finds this useful, but I think there's value > in evaluating the customization block after the shared example group > block. It allows the shared example group to provide a default > implementation of a helper method, and then an instance of the shared > behavior to override the helper method if appropriate. If you > evaluate the customization block before the shared example group > block, the default implementation wins out, and you have no way to > override helper methods in an instance of a shared example group. You can still get the same outcome, but you have to implement it in the group like this: unless defined?(:foo) def foo; "foo"; end end I think it's a good trade-off to put that burden on the group (and it's author) rather that the consumers of the group. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
