On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:27 AM, David Chelimsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Ed Howland <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, I have a custom matcher that I call XMLDiff that takes an actual >> XML string and an expected one and uses RSpec's normal line differ to >> show the difference at the node level. It uses a method called >> be_functionaly_eql, because two XML strings can be the same regardless >> of whitespece. I.e. they are functionaly equivalent. If you ran both >> through the same parser, they would (should) result in the same >> behavior. So: >> >> actual_xml.should be_functionally_eql("<xmlstring ... >") >> >> If they are not, you get a context diff right to the element level. >> Useful for finding errors in long XML strings. >> >> I have searched for such a thing to no avail. There may be other >> solutions and I;d be interested in seeing them. But this is what I >> came up with. >> >> The question is, how would you recommend sharing it? I am new to >> gem-ing, but can it be packaheged that way, or is there some other >> method for sharing custom matchers? I can host it on Github, if that >> is a recommended way to do so. > > For most users, gems are the easiest answer. By all means, host source on > github if you want people to contribute, or have a place to inspect code, > but you don't need a public source repository in order to push gems to > gemcutter. > HTH,
Yes it does. That was my plan, to add a gem to my github account. I'll search out other DSLs for RSpec and see how they packaged them as a gem. I imagine the easiest way to use it is to add the require to spec_helper.rb (assuming you have one) and then call the be_functionally_eql in your specs as normal. Thanks, And Happy New Year! Ed > David > >> >> Thanks >> Ed >> >> >> -- >> Ed Howland >> http://greenprogrammer.wordpress.com >> http://twitter.com/ed_howland >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- Ed Howland http://greenprogrammer.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/ed_howland _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
