On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm trying to setup some shared specs to describe a CRUD controller
> and want to reuse the logic in it.
>
> I'm basing most of the examples in latest David's post about it [1]
>
> The thing is that looking at the mailing list I couldn't find a
> cleaner way to set the model that will be used in the different
> controller examples.
>
> Has anyone experienced DRY without removing readability in this topic?

I think it's ironic that you cite my post about the goodness of being
less DRY in your quest for more DRY-ness. ;)

> I was looking for something like this:
>
> describe Invoices do
>  it_should_behave_like "CRUD", :model => Invoice, ...
> end

There is an open ticket on this: http://rubyurl.com/7ZsP

Please feel free to resurrect the conversation there.

Cheers,
David

>
> where :model is being set as instance variable inside the shared specs.
>
> In any case, I can workaround using before(:each) blocks before
> invoking the shared specs.
>
> Thanks in advance for comments, suggestions and pointers.
>
> [1] http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2008/7/1/new-controller-examples
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