Sounds like a lot of work
On Apr 3, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Julian Leviston wrote: > Sorry I meant send AND __send__ > > Julian. > > On 04/04/2010, at 11:45 AM, Julian Leviston wrote: > >> >> On 04/04/2010, at 7:32 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Vojto Rinik <zero0...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hello RSpec users! >>>> I have one abstract class and a few classes that inherit from that abstract >>>> one. >>> >>> Ruby doesn't have abstract classes. You can have a base class that you >>> don't _intend_ to instantiate directly, but there's nothing stopping >>> you from doing so, so it's not like an abstract class in java, which >>> you actually can't instantiate directly. >>> >>> I've seen some cases where the initialize method is made private so >>> you can't just call Foo.new, so it sort of feels like an abstract >>> class, but even in that case you can still use send() to instantiate >>> one in a test: >>> >>> AbstractIshClass.send(:new) >>> >> >> How about if you overrode new and __new__ ? >> >> Julian. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
