Re: [rspec-users] Best practices to managing RSpec code for verylar ge projects?

2010-02-04 Thread Steve Schafer
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:51:08 -0500, you wrote: >It's just a small battle in the never-ending war against the increase >of entropy. > >It may seem hard, but remember the more you fight it the more you >delay the heat death of the universe! Actually, it's just the opposite: Any attempt to reduce lo

Re: [rspec-users] Not seeing an RJS change

2008-09-29 Thread Steve Schafer
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:34:34 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2008-09-29, at 07:58, David Chelimsky wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> I'm not sure why that is offhand, still waking up this fine Monday >>> morning, but I'd recommend throwing th

Re: [rspec-users] Depot app, Demeter's law and troubles cleanly spe cing

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Schafer
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:40:08 -0700, you wrote: >I wrote a blog post that may be helpful. >http://www.patmaddox.com/blog/demeter-is-for-encapsulation Basically, >when you have structural objects as in this case, demeter isn't >useful. That's a good example as far as it goes, but I think it makes

Re: [rspec-users] top posting and plain text

2009-05-06 Thread Steve Schafer
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Re: [rspec-users] Problem Comparing Floats

2009-08-24 Thread Steve Schafer
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:56:00 -0700, you wrote: >This will work (I'll go update the code now) but it still leaves the >problem I mentioned that if you are unfamiliar with the vagaries of >floating point math -- or even if you momentarily forget -- then using >== will occasionally mysteriously fail.

Re: [rspec-users] Someone please name this matcher for me

2008-08-06 Thread Steve Schafer
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:50:27 -0400, you wrote: >I've had a matcher in my head for a couple months, that I frequently >want but never get around to writing because I can't think of the name >for it. Here's how it would look > >[1, 2, 3, 4, 1].should ... [1, 3, 1, 4, 2] An unordered collection with