On Aug 2, 2010, at 4:49 AM, Ashley Moran wrote: > > On Aug 01, 2010, at 11:52 pm, David Chelimsky wrote: > >> re: 1.8.6, we've got a home-grown implementation of instance_exec that runs >> in 1.8.6 (although I just discovered that it's broken - fix coming shortly). >> I could >> >> a) add such a thing for module_exec as well, though I haven't quite figured >> out how that works yet. >> b) only support parameterized shared groups in ruby 1.8.7 or better >> c). the most drastic option, would be to drop support for 1.8.6 entirely, >> but I don't think that's really feasible yet. > > Hmmm. If you're working on a Rails project with RSpec 2 (which I'm not, but > I'm guessing that will be a very common case), you need 1.8.7 anyway, as > Rails 3 won't run on anything less. If you're not using Rails, I can't > imagine anyone starting a new project on 1.8.6 now. (All my new stuff is on > 1.9.2.)
But what about people who are, for what ever reasons, stuck with Ruby 1.8.6 and want to upgrade? Also, there are a few rspec-2 + rails-2 efforts in the works, and there will be a solution for this sometime this fall. We need to support 1.8.6. > > Is 1.8.6 support in RSpec 2 *really* necessary? Any thoughts from anyone? > > Cheers > Ash > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran > > _______________________________________________ > 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
