[rspec-devel] Game of Life questions

[David Chelimsky]

On 8/28/07, aslak hellesoy <aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/07, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/28/07, aslak hellesoy <aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > First of all, big kudos to Dan and David for making RBehave part of
> > > RSpec. This kicks ass.
> >
> > Mostly Dan - I just helped when he got stuck.
> >
> > > I'm finally taking a closer look at the new story runner and the
> > > examples. These are my observations as a newcomer. I'm not complaining
> > > - just pointing out things I think should be fixed - before I go ahead
> > > and fix some of it myself:
> > >
> > > 1) It was hard to figure out how to run the game of life example.
> > > First I looked for a Rake task and found none. Then I looked for
> > > instructions in a README and found none.
> >
> > This is all stuff we need to do, but keep in mind this is not a release yet.
> >
> > > Then I went online and David
> > > told me I had to run the everything.rb file. That works ok, but I
> > > think we should come up with a more idiomatic way to run things.
> >
> > Agree. Given the discussions we've been having recently about bridging
> > the RSpec/Test::Unit gap, we should have a single command that can
> > field stories, specs and tests.
> >
> > >
> > > 2) I stumbled across .story files. Because of the special file
> > > extension my initial hunch was that these are special files that the
> > > behaviour runner knows how to parse and "execute". Then I realised
> > > this is not the case. So I assume it's just leftovers, in which case I
> > > think it should be moved to a different directory (docs?), given a new
> > > file extension or deleted altogether. Same goes for the stores.txt
> > > file.
> > >
> > > 3) The file structure feels a little unusual. For example, it's common
> > > practice to have foo.rb as a sibling to the foo/ directory, but the
> > > stories.rb file is a child, not a sibling. Further, there is no lib
> > > folder for the code. Small things, but we should fix it. I think the
> > > best is to move the game of life up under trunk or at least make it a
> > > sibling of examples, not a child.
> >
> > +1 for cleaning this up. Not sure about where the example should go. I
> > think it's going to take some playing around for us to figure out how
> > projects should be structured now that we've got the two tool sets
> > merged. In the game-of-life example, we've got:
> >
> > project/behaviour/examples
> > project/behaviour/stories
> >
> > I like that, though we still need to get the name right for what we've
> > called specs and examples. Thinking about how this stuff works
> > together, one idea is:
> >
> > project/behaviour/objects
> > project/behaviour/stories
>
> I assume that is for a gem/regular ruby app. I like that structure.
>
> But what would the structure be in a Rails app?
>
> project/behaviour/models
> project/behaviour/controllers
> project/behaviour/views
> project/behaviour/helpers
> project/behaviour/objects # this is for lib - following same naming
> convention as for "gems"
> project/behaviour/stories

For me, models, controllers, views, and helpers roll up under objects.
There's always two levels of examples: story and everything else - I'm
saying everything else is objects, but it could be something else.
How's that for clarification?

> ?
> >
> > I kind of like that, but I'm not sold. Thoughts?
> >
>
> It's good enough for me, but I'm cheap
>
> Aslak
>
> > David
> >
> > >
> > > Let me know what you think,
> > >
> > > Aslak
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