[rspec-users] more verbosity for be_an?

[Rick DeNatale]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:33 PM, rogerdpack <rogerpack2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What about something like:
>>
>>   expected #<Class:2158174640> => Fixnum to be a kind of Fixnum

Truthfully, I find this much less clear than the original message.

I've got no idea what #<Class:2158174640> => Fixnum means.

Expected Fixnum to be kind of Fixnum makes a lot of sense to me
because I know that x.kind_of? Y means that x is an INSTANCE of Y or
one of it's subclasses, and Fixnum is not a Fixnum but a class.

Pondering this if you don't know that should lead to doing a little
reading and then realizing that you probably wanted

1.should be_a FixNum

instead of

1.class.should be_a Fixnum


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