On Nov 1, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Sam Goldman wrote:
> I am in the process of writing a simple DSL inside of rspec, which defines
> some methods that wrap describe/example and augment the metadata, like
> capybara's "feature/scenario" methods. From the excellent RSpec book, I know
> how to use Configuration to extend RSpec in a forward-compatible way, but it
> is unclear to me how to define methods on the very top-level, so I could
> write specs like this:
>
> require 'my_class'
> describify 'something funky' do; ...; end
>
> I looked into how capybara is doing it, and I see that when one includes
> 'capybara/rspec' that causes a class-level method to be defined in the
> "global" scope[1]. Is this the preferred way of defining such a method for
> use in RSpec DSLs, or is there a better way? I have been able to use this
> method successfully.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> 1.
> https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/blob/f41018f884c53633b6744d26ed1d21fb08e3b92f/lib/capybara/rspec/features.rb
We don't have a formal API, but we should:
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/493
In the mean time, just use alias.
Cheers,
David
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