<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Pat Maddox <<a href="mailto:pergesu@gmail.com">pergesu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Piotr Wlodarek <<a href="mailto:lists@ruby-forum.com">lists@ruby-forum.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> For the base class, it seems reasonable to specify public API with<br>
> RSpec.<br>
><br>
> However, since we deal with a base class, methods are often empty (put<br>
> there just to show the API).<br>
<br>
</div>What's the point of that? This isn't Java.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Readability I would assume. Rspec does this in the base_formatter.rb and Rails does this in some places as well I have noticed. <br></div></div><br>-- <br>Zach Dennis<br><a href="http://www.continuousthinking.com">http://www.continuousthinking.com</a>