On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Cameron Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> New to the list, so apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I
> didn't find it. I'm trying to build up a plugin of useful rspec macros for
> rails development, eg. things like:
>
> it_should_return_success
> it_should_redirect_to { some_url }
>
> I'm basing my ideas off of some stuff technoweenie has done, as well as a
> few others.
>
> One thing I'd love to do is be able to figure out the model class in a rails
> model spec, so I can do something like:
>
> describe User do
> it_should_validate_presence_of :name
> end
>
> I can get it working if I pass in User as an argument:
>
> describe User do
> it_should_validate_presence_of User, :name
> end
>
> but that feels redundant. Is there a way to access the class itself that I'm
> missing? On the controller spec side, I see there is controller_class_name,
> but that needs to be set with the controller_name method. I could go for
> something like that if required, but somehow it seems like it would be
> overkill.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!
You're looking for example_group.described_type, which you can get to like this:
describe Foo do
described_type # =>Foo
it "should be Foo" do
self.class.described_type # => Foo
end
end
Cheers,
David
>
> Cameron
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