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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Kwasi Mensah <kwasi.men...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with one of my rspecs and it's coming down to the tests
> being confused about what the subject is. Here's an example spec and the
> corresponding test failures I get:
>
> describe "HashBug" do
> before do
> @test_hash = {"foobar" => ["a", "b", "c"]}
> end
> describe "Test fails" do
> it do
> @test_hash["foobar"].size should be 1
> end
> end
>
> describe "Test passes" do
> it do
> @test_hash["foobar"][0].should eq "a"
> end
> end
> end
>
> Failures:
>
> 1) HashBug Test fails
> Failure/Error: @test_hash["foobar"].size should be 1
>
> expected #<Fixnum:3> => 1
> got #<String:70131453842100> => "Test fails"
>
> Compared using equal?, which compares object identity,
> but expected and actual are not the same object. Use
> 'actual.should eq(expected)' if you don't care about
> object identity in this example.
> # ./spec/requests/test_hash_bug_spec.rb:7:in `block (3 levels) in
> <top (required)>'
>
> Finished in 0.00215 seconds
> 2 examples, 1 failure
>
> Failed examples:
>
> rspec ./spec/requests/test_hash_bug_spec.rb:6 # HashBug Test fails
>
>
> I'm not clear on why the match fails with one level of using [] but passes
> with two levels.
>
> I'm using the command:
> bundle exec rspec spec/requests/test_hash_bug_spec.rb
>
> I'm using the following rspec gems:
> rspec (2.11.0)
> rspec-core (2.11.1)
> rspec-expectations (2.11.3)
> rspec-mocks (2.11.3)
> rspec-rails (2.11.0)
>
> And I can provide my full gem list if needed.
>
> Kwasi
>
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