try it, does the same thing ='(<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 29, 2008 7:49 PM, Shane Mingins <<a href="mailto:smingins@elctech.com">smingins@elctech.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Are you looking for something like this<div><br></div><div>lambda { @audience.stats = 'Market Goblin' }.should raise_error</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div>On 30/01/2008, at 1:48 PM, Andrew WC Brown wrote:</div>
<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div><div>Trying to spec the following but don't know if I'm using the right matcher.</div><div>How do I spec? Plz, sugar on tops.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Audience.stats</div><div> - should have a stats of 80 when passed a flux of 10</div><div>- should return an error when passed a string (ERROR - 1)</div><div><br></div><div>1)</div><div>TypeError in 'Audience.stats should return an error when passed a string'</div>
<div>String can't be coerced into Fixnum</div><div>./audience.rb:11:in `*'</div><div>./audience.rb:11:in `stats='</div><div>./audience_spec.rb:29:</div><div><br></div><div>Finished in 0.006333 seconds</div> <div>
<br></div><div>2 examples, 1 failure</div><div>monsterbox:spec andrew_wc_brown$ </div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div> <div><br></div><div>class Audience</div><div> </div><div> attr_accessor :stats</div><div> </div>
<div> def initialize(name = nil,value = nil) </div><div> @name ||= 'all'</div> <div> @value ||= value</div><div> end</div><div> </div><div> def stats=(flux)</div><div> @stats = @value * flux / 0.025</div>
<div> end</div><div><br></div><div> def market_share</div> <div> "The Market share is for #{@name} at a high of #{@stats}"</div><div> end</div><div> </div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div>describe "Audience.stats" do</div>
<div> </div><div>before :all do</div><div> @audience = Audience.new(nil,20)</div><div>end</div><div> </div><div> it "should have a stats of 80 when passed a flux of 10" do</div><div> @audience.stats = 10</div>
<div> @audience.stats.should == 8000</div><div> end</div><div> </div><div> it "should return an error when passed a string" do</div><div> @audience.stats = 'Market Goblin'</div><div> @audience.stats.should raise_error</div>
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