Is it just me, or is the output of "spec --diff" "back to front"?
In other words given expected result:
foo 1
foo 2
foo 3
And actual result:
foo 1
foo 2
bar x
foo 3
This is what "spec --diff u the_spec.rb" shows me:
2)
'Thing should blah' FAILED
expected: "foo 1\nfoo 2\nfoo 3\n",
got: "foo 1\nfoo 2\nbar x\nfoo 3\n" (using ==)
Diff:
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
foo 1
foo 2
-bar x
foo 3
./spec/the_spec.rb:208:
In other words it's showing me "how is the expected result different
from the actual?", but I think it would be more intuitive for it to
show the opposite ("how is the actual result different from the
expected?"); to me this latter question is much more interesting and
is the answer I am interested in when I ask "what's the difference
between the actual and the expected?". The output:
2)
'Thing should blah' FAILED
expected: "foo 1\nfoo 2\nfoo 3\n",
got: "foo 1\nfoo 2\nbar x\nfoo 3\n" (using ==)
Diff:
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
foo 1
foo 2
+bar x
foo 3
./spec/the_spec.rb:208:
I understand that this kind of thing might be subjective, so wanted to
know what other people think.
I also have this spook sense of deja vu while writing this, so please
forgive me if this has come up before.
Cheers,
Wincent
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