Re: [rspec-users] more verbosity for be_an?

2010-01-02 Thread David Chelimsky
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote: > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:35 PM, David Chelimsky > wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Andrew Premdas > wrote: > >> > >> 2009/12/30 rogerdpack > >>> > >>> > What about something like: > >>> > > >>> > expected # => Fixnum to

Re: [rspec-users] more verbosity for be_an?

2010-01-02 Thread Rick DeNatale
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:35 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Andrew Premdas wrote: >> >> 2009/12/30 rogerdpack >>> >>> > What about something like: >>> > >>> >   expected # => Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum >>> > >>> > That is more aligned with other failure messag

Re: [rspec-users] Loading numerous data structures from YAML files

2010-01-02 Thread Peter Hicks
Hi Phillip Phillip Koebbe wrote: Have you read about fixtures? It sounds like just what you're looking for. I'm using fixtures already - they're great. I can't find a way to load a specific fixture in to a table. If I could do that, I could load a set of data, run the code, check the resu

Re: [rspec-users] Loading numerous data structures from YAML files

2010-01-02 Thread Phillip Koebbe
On Jan 2, 5:17 am, Peter Hicks wrote: > > How best should I tackle this?  Where should I put the YAML files and is > there any functionality in RSpec that will help?  Should I roll my own > "load test data" code and present that to the test code? > > Best wishes, > > Peter Hi Peter, Have you rea

Re: [rspec-users] more verbosity for be_an?

2010-01-02 Thread David Chelimsky
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Andrew Premdas wrote: > 2009/12/30 rogerdpack > > > What about something like: >> > >> > expected # => Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum >> > >> > That is more aligned with other failure messages. WDYT? >> >> I quite like it. >> In this instance it was >> >> 3.class

Re: [rspec-users] more verbosity for be_an?

2010-01-02 Thread Andrew Premdas
2009/12/30 rogerdpack > > What about something like: > > > > expected # => Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum > > > > That is more aligned with other failure messages. WDYT? > > I quite like it. > In this instance it was > > 3.class.should be_a Fixnum # fails > > I suppose it would be something like

[rspec-users] Loading numerous data structures from YAML files

2010-01-02 Thread Peter Hicks
All, I am writing specs for some multi-stage tests which require a lot of input data. A simplified overview of the tests is as follows: * Provide list of network interfaces, confirm they are added to the database * Provide list of network interfaces as above, but with one entry added, and