I think that makes sense.<br><br>Which do you recommend? Flexmock or Mocha?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Taylor</b> <<a href="mailto:mailing_lists@railsnewbie.com">mailing_lists@railsnewbie.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:55 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:<br><br>> On 9/2/07, Wilson Bilkovich <
<a href="mailto:wilsonb@gmail.com">wilsonb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> On 9/1/07, rupert <<a href="mailto:rupert_apsc@rupespad.com">rupert_apsc@rupespad.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> On 1 Sep 2007, at 10:04, Tom Stuart wrote:
<br>>>><br>>>>> On 1 Sep 2007, at 09:31, rupert wrote:<br>>>>>>> Are we planning on dumping the mock framework in favor of using<br>>>>>>> Mocha<br>>>>>> The idea has been bandied around on the dev list recently
<br>>><br>>> This decision, if it is made in this manner, is suicide for RSpec.<br>><br>> I simply don't understand this statement. Why is this such a big deal?<br>> RSpec's mock framework offers pretty much ZERO over mocha or flexmock
<br>> - the only thing is that it saves you from typing 24 or 27 characters<br>> in a config file, depending on your preference. 21 if you use RR.<br>><br>> After that, the functionality is pretty much the same as the other
<br>> frameworks<br><br>I'm a little confused about this discussion. Why don't we just do<br>the following:<br><br>1. Hand off the mocking/stubbing framework off to someone else. It<br>will be their project<br>
<br>2. Make the mocking/stubbing framework a dependency of the rspec gem<br><br>3. Make it the default (as it is now)<br><br>4. Provide clear directions for changing mocking frameworks (as we<br>have now).<br><br>I thought the end goal with refactoring the mocking framework out was
<br>not that we shouldn't be using it, but, that we (David, Aslak, Brian,<br>etc) won't have to maintain it. Or am I missing something?<br><br>Scott<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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