On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Radhesh Kamath <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Justin Ko wrote in post #988825: >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Radhesh Kamath >> <li...@ruby-forum.com>wrote: >> >>> end >>> >>> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >>> >> >> You're mapping absolute strings (URL's) to your routes. Any string >> manipulation would dilute the spec. In my opinion, this is not a case of >> keeping things DRY. > > It's clear that you have understood my intent: keep things DRY by > specifying the prefix once, and write tests as though the prefix is > implicitly specified. > > But what do you mean by 'dilute the spec'?
It makes it hard to read. You have a new concept to understand: all the routes being specified are not the routes being specified. > Do you think it might make the spec brittle? > > Pat: > > I just want to keep things DRY by specifying the 'v1' prefix once, so > the example would be 'v1/...', only 'v1' would be implicitly set in some > way. What you propose would introduce an abstraction that will make it harder to understand failures in order to save a few duplicate keystrokes. This is _not_ what DRY is about. See http://www.artima.com/intv/dry.html for some background on that. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
