From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2007-01-25T04:33:59+09:00
Subject: Re: test/spec -- was Re: I don't get rspec

"David Chelimsky" <dchelimsky@gmail.com> writes:

>> > Glad to hear it. Do you have any feeling about which approach to reuse
>> > you personally prefer? Nested contexts or included modules?
>>
>> As said, nesting is purely for organizational and namespacing purposes.
>> I use modules.
>
> Interesting. I thought it was for context state sharing like this:
>
> context "a User" do
>  setup do
>    user = User.new
>  end
>
>  context "with a valid email address" do
>    setup do
>      user.email = "a@b.com"
>    end
>    ...
>  end
>
>  context "with an invalid email address" do
>    setup do
>      user.email = "this@is.not.correctly.formatted"
>    end
>    ...
>  end
> end
>
> This leads us quickly down a path in which you have to look up a chain
> of several setup methods to understand failures.
>
> If it's just a matter of namespacing for reporting/organization that's
> kind of interesting.

I'm not sure how I could implement that (and I wont ;-)).  But maybe
includable setups would be useful.

module UserSetup
  setup do  # ???
    @user = User.new
  end
end

context "Users" do
  context "with a valid email address" do
    include UserSetup
    setup { @user.email ... }
  end
  context "with a valid email address" do
    include UserSetup
    setup { @user.email ... }
  end
end

That shouldn't be too hard to do...

> David
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