[rspec-users] Shoulda

[Nathan Sutton]

You should browse over how shoulda does it here:
http://thoughtbot.com/projects/shoulda/tutorial/controllers

and here:
http://dev.thoughtbot.com/shoulda/classes/ThoughtBot/Shoulda/Controller/ClassMethods.html

Nathan Sutton
fowlduck at gmail.com
rspec 1.1
rspec_on_rails 1.1
rails 2.0.2

On Jan 10, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Jonathan Leighton wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 18:47 -0500, Josh Knowles wrote:
>> On 1/10/08, Nathan Sutton <nathan.sutton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hmm, that includes a good number of them, but there's still the
>>> restful resource to think about, which is in my opinion the most
>>> valuable one.  Would you consider the addition of a restful resource
>>> matcher similar to shoulda's?
>>
>> Yes.  If you work something up I'd happily add it.  Unfortunately I
>> don't have the need/time/desire to do it myself right now though.
>
> My reservation with the idea of "should be restful" is that you have  
> to
> assume an awful lot about how the controller is implemented. That's  
> fine
> if you use scaffolding excessively but if you actually write your own
> code (!!) things quickly start to deviate from the trodden path.
>
> Recently I have been writing my controller specs a bit like this (I  
> have
> some support code to enable it):
>
> describe PostsController do
>  controller_name :posts
>  stub_resource
>
>  describe "when a post is viewed and the current user is an admin" do
>    log_in :as => :admin
>    get :show, :id => 42
>
>    it_should_find
>    it_should_load_awesome_admin_stuff
>  end
>
>  describe "when a post is edited by a normal user" do
>    log_in :as => :prole
>    get :edit, :id => 23
>
>    it_should_find
>    it_should_warn
>    it_should_redirect_to "the post's page", :at => "post_path(@post)"
>  end
> end
>
> Some of the above is me using my creative license but you get the  
> idea.
> Just thought it might spark some ideas/opinions... it's certainly  
> not a
> perfect implementation/API but I've found the general idea quite  
> useful.
> I personally think this is the right level at which to make the
> abstraction - you are still specifying the behaviour explicitly, just
> writing less code when doing it.
>
> Jon
>
> -- 
> Jonathan Leighton
> http://jonathanleighton.com/
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