Ooh, I totally want to do this, I'll work on it this week along with
my other patch i have yet to submit this week, unless Scott is partial
to doing it. Do you want it, Scott?
Nathan Sutton
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On Nov 21, 2007, at 4:13 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 3:53 PM, Scott Taylor
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2007, at 4:22 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 21, 2007 3:14 PM, Daniel N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I want to be able to get at the described class in my shared
>>>> behaviour. I'm
>>>> sure an example will say it better than my words
>>>>
>>>> describe "my shared", :shared => true do
>>>>
>>>> it "should tell me what the class is its describing" do
>>>> how_do_i_get_the_user_class_here
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> describe User do
>>>> it_should_behave_like "my shared"
>>>>
>>>> #...
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> So in my shared behaviour, how do I get access to the User class?
>>>
>>> There's no way to do this implicitly. i.e. rspec does not expose the
>>> class. You'd have to have a method like described_class or
>>> something:
>>>
>>> describe "my shared", :shared => true do
>>>
>>> it "should tell me what the class is its describing" do
>>> described_class.should do_something_I_care_about
>>> end
>>>
>>> end
>>>
>>> describe User do
>>> def described_class
>>> User
>>> end
>>> ...
>>> end
>>
>> Or you could just set up instance variables in your before :each
>> block:
>>
>> describe "an object which has to_s", :shared => true do
>> it "should work!" do
>> :foo.send(@method).should == "foo"
>> end
>> end
>>
>> describe Symbol do
>> before :each do
>> @method = :to_s
>> end
>>
>> it_should_behave_like "an object which has to_s"
>> end
>>
>>
>> On another note, I've been poking around Rubinius' source, which uses
>> a scaled down version of rspec, and they already have shared examples
>> with parameters:
>>
>> shared :symbol_id2name do |cmd|
>> describe "Symbol\##{cmd}" do
>> it "returns the string corresponding to self" do
>> :rubinius.send(cmd).should == "rubinius"
>> :squash.send(cmd).should == "squash"
>> :[].send(cmd).should == "[]"
>> :@ruby.send(cmd).should == "@ruby"
>> :@@ruby.send(cmd).should == "@@ruby"
>> end
>> end
>> end
>>
>> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../spec_helper'
>>
>> describe "Symbol#to_s" do
>> it_behaves_like(:symbol_id2name, :to_s)
>> end
>>
>>
>> This doesn't seem that hard to implement. Is there some reason a
>> patch has been created yet?
>
> Yes. You haven't submitted it.
>
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
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