If you want to learn fast, you can also do the codeschool's course here
: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/testing-with-rspec. Fun and fast.
Good luck.
If you want to share the code on github, contact me and I can comment
your project.
Le 2012-11-24 04:00, Andrew Premdas a écrit :
On 24 November 2012 03:24, Perry Smith <pedz...@gmail.com
<mailto:pedz...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've never really done BDD or TDD. I've done various tests but
not really allowing the tests to direct the development
I've read various books and I bought the RSpec book and was
reading it -- up to chapter 4.
Today while torquing with a toy Rails project, a small change
mushroomed into a major revamp due to new ideas I've picked up
from DCI, Objects on Rails, and other sources. I don't really
have the tests like I should to verify my changes work so this
seemed like a good opportunity to really do the revamp using BDD
with RSpec and Cucumber. The toy Rails project is specifically
intended to teach me new things.
My question is: would it work for me to just jump up to chapter 19
where the RSpec book starts talking about Rails? Or would it be
better (less frustration, etc) if I plowed through the other chapters?
It might well do, however Chapters 21 and 22 are very webrat centred,
and you really want to use Capybara instead. Chapter 23 isn't really
necessary if you are using Cucumber and the same could be said for
Chapter 24. Chapter 25 is where you should start using RSpec with rails.
The book is quite old now. It still has great value for understanding
core BDD principles, and for covering the range of things you can do
with RSpec, but if you use it as a guide to follow step by step
without sufficient background understanding you might get bitten by
its age. The Cucumber book might be better to use with Rails for this.
Finally the most important bit of the book is the diagram on page 29.
Understanding that cycle is key to doing BDD well, and the codebreaker
example does have the merit of being a low overhead way of examining
this cycle in great detail, without all the baggage that Rails brings
HTH and Good luck
Andrew
Any other hints or suggestions would be welcomed as well.
Thank you,
Perry Smith
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