I thought that it might be worth starting a discussion about the best approaches to deal with spec'ing what's becoming more and more common in apps using active record.
It started with named scopes, now we have arel, and the old find calls with parameters are being deprecated. When I watched Ryan Bate's latest opus http://railscasts.com/episodes/202-active-record-queries-in-rails-3 this morning I decided it might be good to bring my concerns up. The problem of course is that we're going to get used to writing more code like this: Article.where("published_at <= ?", Time.now).includes(:comments) >From one aspect, I find all this very nice. It makes writing queries easier and much more readable. On the other hand these are the kind of "train wreck" violations of the "strong suggestion of Demeter" which makes mocking and stubbing difficult among other things. Thoughts? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
