Thanks David, That helps a lot and makes a lot of sense. Neat article by the way, was following to get a hang on rspec.
Cheers! On Jun 28, 3:00 pm, David Chelimsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 28, 2010, at 1:14 PM, bertly_the_coder wrote: > > > > > Hey Guys, > > I am working on my first TDD/BDDD example and running into a problem, > > when I run 'ruby app.rb" The app seems to run fine, but when I run > > it's rspec 'spec app_spec.rb" I get a no method defined. > > > app.rb > > require 'rubygems' > > require 'open-uri' > > require 'hpricot' > > > class Timer > > #this is the retrieve method used to retrieve the contents of the xml > > file > > > def self.retrieve > > doc = Hpricot(open('some site')) > > #get the times > > times = doc/"//times" > > puts times > > end > > end > > > Timer.retrieve - this works fine > > > rspec > > require 'app' > > > describe Timer do > > it "should retrieve the xml info from the site" do > > Timer.should retrieve > > end > > > end > > > error: > > NameError in 'Timer should retrieve the xml info from the site' > > undefined local variable or method `retrieve' for > > #<Spec::Example::ExampleGroup::Subclass_1:0xb6dc9c70> > > ./app.rb:7: > > This error tells you that there is no retrieve() method on the example > itself, but the expression "Timer.should retrieve" expects there to be. > > Try something like this: > > describe Timer do > it "retrieves xml from the site" do > Timer.retrieve.should == "whatever you're expecting" > end > end > > > Hope that's clear enough, I am a tad confused about what's going on, > > it looks pretty clear cut. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
