[rspec-users] What's the new syntax for predicates?

[David Chelimsky]

On 3/14/07, aslak hellesoy <aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/07, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/14/07, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > @settings.should allow_publish_ip("127.0.0.1") fails with
> > > undefined method `allow_publish_ip' for #<#<Class:0x2f8fd48>:0x2f5a968>
> > >
> > > @settings.should_allow_publish_ip("127.0.0.1") works fine
> >
> > @settings.should_be allow_publish_ip("127.0.0.1") is it
>
> Unless I'm mistaken (David?) that's deprecated and will disappear. I
> believe the way forward is:
>
> @settings.should be_allow_publish_ip("127.0.0.1")

Sad, but true. You need to prefix w/ be_ because don't want to have
method_missing doing any more magic than handling methods that start
w/ be_ or have_.

If you find this unpleasant, you can always provide your own helper
methods. Here's a hack that you can use. Maybe we should add this to
rspec?

require 'rubygems'
gem 'rspec'
require 'spec'

def predicate_matchers(*args)
  args.each do |arg|
    define_method(arg) do |*args|
      send "be_#{arg}", *args
    end
  end
end

class Thing
  def allow_publish_ip?(ip)
    true
  end
end

describe Thing do
  predicate_matchers :allow_publish_ip
  it "should allow publish ip 123" do
    Thing.new.should allow_publish_ip(123)
  end
end

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