[rspec-users] Should change not comparing arrays how I expected

[Pat Maddox]

Michael Latta <lattam at mac.com> writes:

> David,
>
> It seems to me that the root of the problem is that the specification
> is incorrect.  Since Rails returns association proxies the
> specification fails because it does not specify what the behavior
> should be.  I would suggest that instead of patching the change
> matcher, that you should add a change_contents matcher that matches
> the contents of a collection vs. the contents of a collection.  That
> way the framework is not guessing what was meant, but relying on the
> specification to be correct.  Since that is really what you want to
> specify (the contents have changed).  I think this is cleaner.

I think this is a leaky abstraction, and letting it leak out like that
is worse than having to do a little framework mojo on our part.

Pat

p.s. does anyone else think that "magic" sounds deragotory while "mojo"
sounds cool?  I propose we say the rspec internals "got their mojo workin"
rather than "magic" :)