On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Stefan Kanev <stefan.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys. > I've been doing RSpec for more than a year by now, yet I cannot help but > feel that I've never got a single view spec right. I can see that I have > very few view specs and that my views tend be a lot messier than everything > else. I've read the chapter in the RSpec book about spec'ing views, but I > still think I'm not getting it right. > Assuming that I'm a view spec noob, would you guys care to share your > experience with writing them? What works and what doesn't? What should I > avoid at all cost? And most importantly, how does the process of writing > view specs feel?
After my initial learning of RSpec, I don't think I've written (m)any view specs. Why? 1. Views shouldn't have much if any logic, so not much behavior to spec 2. Views tend to change a lot as the UI of an application evolves, so specs tend to be brittle. If views have a lot of logic, that's a code smell. In rails such behavior belongs in either the controller, or a helper, and that's where I invest my spec efforts. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @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
