From: Patrick Fernie <patrick.fernie@...>
Date: 2007-01-24T06:53:39+09:00
Subject: Re: test/spec -- was Re: I don't get rspec

Is there an equivalent to autotest for rspec (autospec?)? I've googled
around, but only came across a Rails plugin, which (perhaps obviously)
is very Rails-centric.

-P

On 1/23/07, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:
> >
> > > I like the continuity with test/unit. I'd be more likely to use this
> > > than rspec for my older projects.
> > >
> > > Questions (from a BDD newbie):
> > >
> > > Are the context and specify argument strings purely documentation, or
> > > do they need to be class or method names?
> >
> > They can contain anything except NUL bytes (the extended symbol
> > syntax).  They are turned into class and method names automatically
> > (we need some special formatting for that due to Test::Unit
> > restrictions).
> >
> > > Is it possible to nest contexts? Is this a good idea?
> >
> > test/spec allows them since 0.2, and I use them to group contexts that
> > go together.  Note that nothing is inherited, it's purely namespacing.
> > RSpec doesn't have them, and they aren't interesting in implementing
> > them AFAICT.
>
> That's correct. We've really struggled with this because users want a
> means of sharing context material, but we believe that nesting
> contexts is going to lead to specs that are confusing to look at. We
> believe that clarity supercedes DRY in specs, and so we haven't
> supported this yet.
>
> That said, you can include modules and get reuse that way:
>
> module SomeHelperMethodsUsefulAcrossContexts
> end
>
> context "some context" do
>   include SomeHelperMethodsUsefulAcrossContexts
> end
>
> I'd be surprised if test/spec doesn't already support this out of the box.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> >
> > > Inside of a context, is there a setup/teardown protocol as there is in
> > > test/unit?
> >
> > Yes, you can use
> >
> >     context "Blah" do
> >       setup do
> >         @blah = Blah.new
> >       end
> >
> >       teardown do
> >         @blah.destroy!
> >       end
> >     end
> >
> > You can have multiple of these, and they are run in order of
> > appearance.
> >
> > --
> > Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
> >
> >
>
>