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

[s.ross]

One of the most compelling things about rSpec is the English-like way  
it reads. I'd vote for anything that keeps it that way. If both can  
"should" and "should be" can be supported it captures things like:

email.to.should include('me at mydomain.com')

and

my_ar_object.should be_valid

Just my $.02.

Steve


On Mar 14, 2007, at 3:48 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:

> 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
>
>>
>> Aslak
>>
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