[rspec-users] alias method spec?

[David Chelimsky]

On 3/21/07, Bob Cotton <bob.cotton at rallydev.com> wrote:
> "David Chelimsky" <dchelimsky at gmail.com> writes:
> > On 3/21/07, Bob Cotton <bob.cotton at rallydev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>   [ I'm still thinking in context/specify. ]
> >>
> >> David, your suggestion does answer Bryan's scenario,
> >>
> >>   "you instead had two types of things (Foo and Bar) with one method
> >>   that should behave the same for each"
> >>
> >> It is an interesting approach to testing a common behavior between two
> >> classes. But what about factoring the specify into a module:
> >>
> >> module Common
> >>   specify "..."
> >> end
> >>
> >> then include that into the context?
> >
> > The problem there is that we'd have to add #specify to Module, which
> > I'm hesitant to do. How about this (using "it" and Examples instead of
> > "specify"):
> >
> > module EditionExamples < SharedExampleGroup
> >   it "should " do
> >     ..
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > describe LargeEdition do
> >   include EditionExamples
> >   setup do
> >     ...
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > describe SmallEdition do
> >   include EditionExamples
> >   setup do
> >     ...
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > That make sense?
>
> Sure does, except, can you have modules subclass?
>
> > module EditionExamples < SharedExampleGroup
>
> Instead of factoring out the setup bits and having a common behavior,
> factor out the common behavior and have the #describe be
> the thing we are defining, which makes more sense. That fells right.
>
> I'd be all for adding specify/it to Module.
>
> *or*
>
> rspec, through #describe, is creating classes on the fly. Could you
> have something that defines common behavior that writes Modules on the
> fly?
>
> describe_common AllEditions do
>   it "should" do
>   end
> end
>
> describe "LargeEdition" do
>   include AllEditions
>   setup ...
> end
>
> describe "SmallEdition" do
>   include AllEditions
>   setup ...
> end

That's interesting too, though I'd hate to corrupt the beauty of
describe w/ _common. How about:

describe AllEditions, :shared => true do
 it "should" do
 end
end

etc..


>
> - Bob
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