[rspec-users] Posted this in "dev" last night but I'm not sure that anyone reads it

[Evan David Light]

On Sep 14, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Pat Maddox wrote:

> I agree that it would be nice if story runner treats an empty
> Given/When/Then as pending.  But what do you mean it treats pending as
> an error case?

The actual implementation of how a Scenario is defined as pending.   
The implementation raises a particular type of Error (name eludes me  
as I'm not steeped in code at the moment, sorry) which the  
ScenarioRunner rescues and, based on that, then processes the  
Scenario as pending.  Typically, this would simply be a conditional  
branch in the code and, frankly, seems like an abuse of error handling.

Incidentally, I submitted the patch last night to allow Scenarios  
without blocks to default to pending.  Hopefully, Dan (North) likes  
it.  It makes sense that the expectation metaphors through RSpec (and  
now Story Runner) would behave consistently.  This just makes  
Scenario behave like "it".

I have yet to look closely at the implementations of Given/Then/When/ 
And (forgot about that one, thanks!).  Maybe if I get some time this  
weekend.  Unfortunately, I'm spending the rest of tonight and most of  
tomorrow doing some work for the office...

The deeper I get into it, the more that I love this tool....

Evan