[rspec-users] RSpec vs Screw.Unit

[Scott Taylor]

On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Pat Maddox wrote:

> Scott Taylor <mailing_lists at railsnewbie.com> writes:
>
>> On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
>>
>>> Scott Taylor <mailing_lists at railsnewbie.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> As for #3, I'm
>>>> pretty sure that Ruby's method_missing allows one to raise an
>>>> exception easily.  Not sure what a Javascript mocking framework  
>>>> would
>>>> do in this case.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that I buy that this feature is very important.  Both
>>> Javascript and Ruby blow up when you call a method that doesn't
>>> exist on
>>> it anyway.  What's the difference between "Received unexpected  
>>> message
>>> 'foo'" and "NoMethodError 'foo'"?
>>
>> Unless I'm mistaken, it's only when *another* method gets called on a
>> missing method that an error gets raised:
>>
>>>>> o = {};
>> Object
>>>>> o.foo
>
> You would need to do o.foo() to actually call the method.  That will
> give you "o.foo is undefined"
>

Oops.  I feel like a tool.  Guess ruby syntax still invades my brain.

>
>> BTW, Pat - Have you still been working on integrating test spy into
>> rspec?
>
> Nope, I found not_a_mock [1] and it works well.


Any plans to roll not_a_mock into rspec core?

Scott