[rspec-users] rspec testing inheritance

[Matt Wynne]

On 7 Sep 2011, at 07:53, Sidu Ponnappa wrote:

> 
> On 7 September 2011 11:09, Justin Ko <jko170 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
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>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:40 PM, slavix <mikerin.slava at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> Is there any way to test model inheritance in spec?
>>> 
>>> something like..
>>>  it { ChildModel.should < ParentModel }
>>> 
>>> thanks.

> Wouldn't this be an implementation bound spec?

+1

Test the behaviour, not the implementation. You could look at using a shared example group if you want to specify that the subclass shared behaviour with the superclass.

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