[rspec-users] BDD / cucumber thought - chaining 'Then' steps with Which

[Matt Wynne]

On 26 Sep 2008, at 13:59, Josh Chisholm wrote:

> Stories without shared state feel clunky to me, because we would  
> never speak that way.
>
> I also had a similar urge, don't know if it's a "programmer" urge:
>
> Given a user
> With the name 'josh'
> And the password 'sesame'
>
> ...so I don't end up with an explosion of steps for 'a user with  
> x', 'a user with y', 'a user with x and y' .
>
> So there are named things, but we also often want to refer to the  
> anonymous "last mentioned thing" like we do in speech. So I end up  
> doing things like this sometimes:
>
> Given /a user/ do
>   shared_state["he"] = shared_state["she"] = shared_state["it"] =  
> User.new
> end
>
> ...is that bad?

FWIW, I think it's rather nice. We went through a fad of using @it  
for a while, and now we have a stuff[] hash. Both similar ideas -  
there must be something in this.

Aslak, I'd love to hear a war story about how shared state bit you in  
the arse to give this debate some balance.

cheers,
Matt
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