[rspec-users] more verbosity for be_an?

[David Chelimsky]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM, rogerdpack <rogerpack2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> before I hack up a patch for it.  Would a patch to change
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> "expected Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum"
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> to
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> "expected Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum (is a Class)"
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> or possibly
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> "expected Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum (is a Class, Module, Object,
> Kernel, BasicObject)"
>
>
> have any chance of being accepted?
>

Probably not with that exact wording, but if you feel the message is not
telling you what you need to know, I'm open to other ideas.

What about something like:

  expected #<Class:2158174640> => Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum

That is more aligned with other failure messages. WDYT?



> Thanks.
> -r
>
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