2010/1/2 David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Andrew Premdas <aprem...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2009/12/30 rogerdpack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> >> >> > What about something like: >>> > >>> > expected #<Class:2158174640> => Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum >>> > >>> > That is more aligned with other failure messages. WDYT? >>> >>> I quite like it. >>> In this instance it was >>> >>> 3.class.should be_a Fixnum # fails >>> >>> I suppose it would be something like >>> expected #<Class:Fixnum> => Class to be a kind of Fixnum >>> >>> ? >>> >>> > And just out of curiosity, Roger, what's your use case? I can't >>> remember ever using be_a/be_an, at least not in any code that has survived. >>> >>> The very first test I thought up was "this method should return an >>> integer" so kind of a basic test for a not yet existent method. >>> >>> >> Isn't this a bit anti-ruby though. Surely the things we should be testing >> is that the object exists, responds to certain messages and gives certain >> values back for those messages. Thinking about types is so Java, C++ :-) >> > > Generally speaking, you're correct, but there are cases where this is > valuable - like if you're spec'ing a factory in a lib for others to use, > etc. > > I don't think those cases apply to this thread (judging from its context), but I can see benefits from the improved error message that may result from this discussion.
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