[rspec-users] specs on private methods

[Matt Patterson]

On 8 Jan 2008, at 18:39, Chris Olsen wrote:

> How does a person test private methods?
>
> Is there a way to declare them as private, but retain any tests that
> were written during the initial development?

I'm rather liking Jay Field's approach (described at http:// 
blog.jayfields.com/2007/11/ruby-testing-private-methods.html)

In which he basically redeclares the private methods public for the  
duration of the test only, with a bit of block-scoped evaling goodness.

Matt

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