On Dec 27, 2007 8:30 AM, Corey Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I expected to see SharedExampleGroup < ExampleGroup, but, instead, I saw > SharedExampleGroup < Module. This is incredibly confusing to me. I realize > that they don't even need to have any relationship to each other since they > get their shared functionality through the module ExampleGroupMethods, but > it still seems a bit odd to me that they don't have a hierarchical > relationship.
Whenever you write an example, RSpec defines a method. Shared example groups are basically sugary modules. They define examples - methods - that get included into your "real" example groups. I can't say for sure if there's any deeper meaning to it other than it's the simplest implementation. It would be possible to make SharedExampleGroup be a class, but then when an ExampleGroup uses it_should_behave_like, it would have to list all the examples in the SharedExampleGroup, define methods on itself that delegate to the SEG...as opposed to just mixing in a module :) I admit I'm pulling all of this out of my ass, btw, but I think it's right. I'm sure David will clarify soon. Pat _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
