Nick Hoffman wrote in post #974004: > On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:41:54 PM UTC-5, Ruby-Forum.com User > wrote: >> it "should set the value to 2" do >> > I believe David Chelimsky (the original/primary author of RSpec) > specifically said that spec descriptions should not begin with "should". > I > tried to find where he wrote that, but wasn't able to. However, take a > look > at David's examples: > > http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/11/07/specifying-mixins-with-shared-example-groups-in-rspec-2/ > http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/06/14/filtering-examples-in-rspec-2/ > http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2009/09/15/let-it-be-less/ > > None of those posts have "should" in a spec description.
And virtually none of them use .should for anything in the steps. Note the symmetry. > > The latest example on David's blog that uses "should" in a spec > description > is from 2008: > http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2008/07/01/new-controller-examples/ Interesting (especially since I've been using RSpec since before 2008). I maintain that the older style is clearer, since 'it "adds 2 to foo"' is misleading: it *should* add 2 to foo, but we don't know whether it *does* until we run the test. > > However, this convo should be moved to the RSpec mailing list. Yeah, probably. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
