Thank you very much for your valuable feedback. First, the example is a toy example of course, while the idea of mixing-matching contexts is not. Note that it would be a totally backward-compatible enhancement to rspec, and that a developer would still be in full control of what gets mixed-matched.
Then, the subject might been confusing (not to mention the unsuccessful suggested syntax), as the idea is not necessarily coupled with data permutations. I accept the criticism about over-mocking, and even more than that, I find mocking AR extremely tedious, that's why I've initially thought of coming up with something like http://github.com/costa/rspec-orm (there will be a separate mail on that, please don't comment it here just yet). I hope I'll bring some sort of POC -- which will be working for me at least -- soon. Any comments or suggestions are more than welcome. Cheers, Costa. On 19 July 2010 11:12, Wincent Colaiuta <w...@wincent.com> wrote: > El 19/07/2010, a las 16:20, Phillip Koebbe escribió: > > > On 2010-07-19 5:38 AM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > >> I don't necessarily think so. Matt says you can probably do this right > now by using macros. I don't actually know what he means by that, but I do > know that there are cases where I sometimes want a bunch of nearly identical > specs, and I generate them in code using enumeration or some other means; > ie. dumb example: > >> > >> [:foo, :bar, :baz].do |thing| > >> describe "#{thing} dimensions" do > >> it 'has length' do > >> thing.to_s.length.should> 0 > >> end > >> end > >> end > >> > > > > Glad to see I'm not the only one that does this. :) > > Yeah, I think it's a legitimate technique, as long as you don't get too > carried away with it. > > I use it, for example, for some code quality specs: > > Wincent::SOURCE_FILES.each do |file| > describe file do > it 'contains no trailing whitespace' do > file.should_not have_trailing_whitespace > end > > it 'contains no tabs' do > file.should_not contain_tabs > end > > it 'has a newline at the end' do > file.should have_newline_at_end_of_file > end > end > end > > Cheers, > Wincent > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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