From: Sarah Allen <sarah@...>
Date: 2009-03-03T06:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: passing a method as a paramter

Rick Denatale wrote:
> Okay, I'm curious where you found the topfunky power tools plugin. 
> There's not much that google reveals about the usage.

I'm just getting into TDD. I experimented with cucumber a bit and really 
liked it, but I'm diving into an old codebase with lots of pre-existing 
unit tests. I wanted to understand the basics, so (as you guessed) I 
bought the peepcode tutorial.

> Now, as I say, this plugin doesn't seem to be very popular based on a 
> google search, and it's rather old.  There are probably more 'modern' 
> approaches to
> testing required field validations these days using Test::Unit tests in
> Rails, I'm not as up on that as I tend to use RSpec rather than 
> Test::Unit.

If its wisdom is out of date, is there another resource you recommend? 
Or is everyone just skipping unit tests these days in favor of the BDD 
tools?

> And since this really IS a Rails question, it probably would have gotten 
> a better response, quicker if it had been submitted ot the ruby on rails
> mailing list.

Yeah, I see that in retrospect -- seemed like a basic language question 
at the time.  Thanks so much for digging in and letting me know the 
scoop, which I clearly didn't fully understand from the screencast.   Of 
course, now I know four ways to pass a method as a parameter, which is 
fabulous.

Cheers,
Sarah
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