[rspec-users] need some advice on the best way to structure testable shared methods

[Patrick J. Collins]

> Having trouble following your example. Why do you have to pass
> Bar.new(nil, nil) for this test? 

Because the shared example is testing the method #build_name from the module
that is included in the various classes-- it needs the object that #build_name
is attached to in order to test the functionality.

The .new(nil, nil) is because the initialize method of the classes that include
the module have expected arguments...  I supposed I could have done

def initialize(arg1 = nil, arg2 = nil)

to prevent having to do Bar.new(nil, nil) in the test, but I actually would
rather the init method have actual argument expectations.


Patrick J. Collins
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