[rspec-devel] [ rspec-Patches-15709 ] [PATCH] Have SimpleMatchers expose their description for specdocs

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Patches item #15709, was opened at 2007-11-17 16:30
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Category: expectation module
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Bryan Helmkamp (brynary)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: [PATCH] Have SimpleMatchers expose their description for specdocs

Initial Comment:
I'm loving the simplicity of writing custom matchers with SimpleMatcher. The convenience has led me to write very descriptive matchers like "validate_presence_of(attribute)". The result is that the strings I would be passing in to the #it method are identical to my matchers. For example:

it "should validate presence of name" do
  @story.should validate_presence_of(:name)
end

I prefer to shorten these to:

it { @story.should validate_presence_of(:name) }

The problem is that SimpleMatcher doesn't expose it's description instance variable to be used in specdocs.

This simple patch fixes that.

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