I think we all know that the readability of steps isn't great right now, and in fact there's a very recent thread that discusses just that. It was that recent thread that prompted me to explore this a bit.
The basic idea is that you define step matchers, which have a regex, and then you match step names against that regex. Kind of tough for me to explain so I'll just link to some code :) spec: http://pastie.caboo.se/107116 impl: http://pastie.caboo.se/107117 Instead of writing Given "a user named __ who is __ years old", "Pat Maddox", 22 it allows you to write Given "a user named Pat Maddox who is 22 years old" I wrote it out as a separate matcher because it was just easiest to do it that way while I explored this approach, no messing around with RSpec internals to get it to really work. However if we went this route the structure would certainly be different. Hopefully you can get the idea from the example code. Ideally what I would like is to write step libraries that are external to the stories themselves. The stories would be much clearer because the implementation would not be embedded, and the step names themselves would make a lot more sense. wdyt? Pat _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
