On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Joseph Wilk <j...@josephwilk.net> wrote: > Stephen Eley wrote: >> >> 2009/3/19 Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...@gmail.com>: >> >>> >>> Even 'should be' is a bit grating. I'm tempted to write a pair of >>> matchers >>> like be_truthy and be_falsy, but I was wondering what other RSpec users >>> have >>> to say. >>> >> >> should be || should_not be: that is the expectation: >> Whether 'tis nobler in the parser to interpret >> The outputs and side effects of outrageous duck typing, >> Or to inherit against a sea of matchers >> And by declaration extend them? To fail: to raise; >> No more; and by a raise to say we throw >> The exception and the thousand natural returns >> The code is heir to, 'tis a specification >> Devoutly to be wished. To fail: to raise; >> To raise, perchance to rescue: ay, there's the rub, >> For in that state of exception what tests may fail >> When we have injected in this matcher code >> Must give us pause: there's the RSpec >> That makes calamity of such long backtraces; >> For who would bear the Flogs and Heckles, >> The oppressor's Reek, the proud man's Cucumber, >> The pangs of despised Rcov, the spec_server's Drb, >> The insolence of Autotest and the spurns >> That patient merit of the occasional Rakes, >> When he himself might his validation make >> With a bare assertion? ..... >> > > Please frame that and put it on a wall somewhere. Its Quite brilliant.
Nay frame, nor wall, yet viewable by all: http://wiki.github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/should-be-should_not-be > > -- > Joseph Wilk > http://blog.josephwilk.net > >> >> (...And so forth. All of which is to say, before my Muse molested me, >> that I rather _like_ the sparse "should be" and "should_not be" specs. >> Simple is good, and there's a poetry about them. Keep 'em!) >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
