[rspec-users] Expecting nil or false

[Scott Taylor]

On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just ran into this issue. I have a method that returns: false, true,
> nil or an object.
>
> This method is used by another method to test for true/false. In Ruby
> that's easy to handle as nil and false evaluate to false, and  
> everything
> else evaluates to true, but RSpec seems to expect an exact value  
> such as
> nil, true, false, not_nil, etc.

Use the boolean matchers:

def foo?
   nil
end

obj.should be_foo #=> fails
obj.should_not be_foo  #=> passes

Scott


>
>
> Do I have to rewrite my return values to always return true or false?
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