Re: [rspec-users] Story testing views in isolation

2008-03-14 Thread Corey Haines
Thanks, everyone, for the thoughts. After thinking about it further and reflecting on all the thoughts, I think it definitely is more of a square peg - round hole situation. Luckily, my designer is well able to handle building view specs for the prototypes that he is building. We then are going to

Re: [rspec-users] Story testing views in isolation

2008-03-11 Thread Jarkko Laine
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Zach Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 for keeping view specs act as view specs and stories act as stories. Agreed. AFAIK stories are for describing a series of actions and behavior and that doesn't really fit in nicely with specifying views in isolation. //

Re: [rspec-users] Story testing views in isolation

2008-03-11 Thread Zach Dennis
Corey, What part of the Story do you like that you want the designers to be exposed to? A higher level API, the plain text part (separation from implementation of the test), etc... ? Zach On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Zach Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:03 AM, C

Re: [rspec-users] Story testing views in isolation

2008-03-11 Thread Zach Dennis
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Corey Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:16 AM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > The reason that I want to do this is that I want to give our > > > designer/business people a way to write stories to describe their

Re: [rspec-users] Story testing views in isolation

2008-03-11 Thread Corey Haines
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:16 AM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reason that I want to do this is that I want to give our > > designer/business people a way to write stories to describe their user > > interface while they work on the prototype, then give us the stories to > help

Re: [rspec-users] Story testing views in isolation

2008-03-11 Thread David Chelimsky
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Corey Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been investigating plain text stories, and I had a quick question. How > would I go about creating story tests for views in isolation, instead of the > full stack? I had hoped to be able to do a straight render

[rspec-users] Story testing views in isolation

2008-03-10 Thread Corey Haines
Hi, I've been investigating plain text stories, and I had a quick question. How would I go about creating story tests for views in isolation, instead of the full stack? I had hoped to be able to do a straight render '/', but it says it can't find the method. The reason that I want to do this is t