On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>wrote:
> David Kahn wrote in post #978011: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:01 PM, William Fisk > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Ah, thanks, yes that will probably be the reason. > > > > > > Right... send comes in real handy in testing private methods, use it all > > the > > time > > Then you've got bigger problems. You shouldn't be testing your private > methods; that's poking too deeply into an object's implementation. You > should only ever test things that can be called from outside an object. > > If a private method is an intermediate value in a computation, just test > the end result. If a private method really needs to be tested > separately, then it's telling you that it wants to be public. > I disagree -- for me public is what I want to expose to outside access, regardless of complexity or size, where the private logic may actually be the most complex, being called by a relatively light public function. Now this may be a difference between TDD and BDD in pure forms, but for me I find if I drive my methods, public or private with test first, that the end resulting code is much more pliable. Also, if I have coverage on what becomes complex private logic, at a more granular level -- then I have a much stronger project an also address minute issues closer to the source. I am sure you have your method of working that works for you, this is what I have found effective and successful. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
