On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 09:26 -0600, David Chelimsky wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Ronald Chaplin <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hey all, > So I woke up early this morning, and was running some tests > through > autospec, and it returned a time as follows: > > Finished in 0.0151600000000001 seconds > > I know that there are alot of other more important issues > being > addressed right now for the rspec project, (2.0 for Rails > 3.0). However, > do we really need this level of precision for spec tests? I > know that > it's nice to see if your refactoring made any changes in > overall > performance. But do we really need it carried out to 16 > decimal places? > Just seems like over kill to me. > > > Hey Ronald, > > > Is this actually causing you pain? RSpec isn't doing anything special > to get 16 decimal places here. It just uses Timeout from the standard > lib, which offers no API for precision. Reducing the precision would > require additional code in RSpec, and _that_ seems like overkill to > me :)
Hey David, Great book btw. I'm learning so much and it has really helped me in my newbie days to ruby. No, it's not a pain. Just seemed like overkill that it would report to such a finite decimal place is all. I guess that's the PHPer in me ackking @ the wasted numbers :p -- Ronald Chaplin <[email protected]> T73 Biz > > Cheers, > David > > > One solution I had thought about was simply having a boolean > switch > option for rspec called precise, wherein it would print > shortened, less > precise times for those who wanted it. I'd even be willing to > do the leg > work/patches for it if this doesn't seem like a crazy idea. > > Just self.trying_to + something.useful? > > -- > Ronald Chaplin <[email protected]> > T73 Biz > > _______________________________________________ > 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
