On Jan 17, 2008 11:33 AM, Giles Bowkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Giles - I think you'll find more people with more experience in this > > area on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. That said, and > > only having glanced at your mail, here's a thought or two: > > > > The TDD line on this, as I understand it, is that you should write > > your main application code exactly as you want to write it, imagining > > that you had the perfect API to talk to and stubbing that API in your > > tests. Then, when hooking up to the real services, you write thin > > adapters that simply convert messages to the right format. I *think* > > that's what you said you are doing. > > Yes. Sorry about the Great American Novel - that is pretty much what I'm > doing.
Then that's sane :) It lets you keep changes to your internal app separate from changes to the service - even allows you to easily swap in new services - and lets you "talk in your language" within the app rather than being subject to an API that may or may not make sense to you most of the time. > > -- > > Giles Bowkett > > Podcast: http://hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com > Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com > Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org > Tumblelog: http://giles.tumblr.com > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
