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[Tom Locke]

Thanks David,

I'm not sure this covers my situation though - I'll give a bit more  
detail

The class I'm specing is the DRYML compiler -- yep I'm doing  
retroactive specing I'm afraid, which is maybe why things don't fit  
too neatly.

You instantiate the class, passing the DRYML source, and then call  
process_src which converts the DRYML to regular ERB, and returns that  
as a string.

At the moment I'm doing stuff like this:

describe Template do

   it "should compile tag calls to method calls" do
     compile_dryml("<foo/>").should == "<%= foo() %>"
   end

   it "should compile attributes as keyword parameters" do
     compile_dryml("<foo a='1'/>").should == '<%= foo({:a => "1"}) %>'
   end

end

Those compile_dryml calls each instantiate a template with a  
different state. I really don't want to have a separate describe  
block for each example - there could be hundreds. Is this bad form?

Tom