Comments on: Writing Macros in RSpec

By: Ben Mabey

Ben Mabey — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:41:17 +0000

Thanks Michael! It is always reinforcing to get positive feedback.

By: Michael Niessner

Michael Niessner — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:39:34 +0000

Another great post!

By: Andrew WC Brown

Andrew WC Brown — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:37 +0000

Wow this is really wicked Ben.

@Chelimsky

I’d call it hand holding.

By: Ben Mabey

Ben Mabey — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:21:11 +0000

@maninred:
I just found a project on github with a lot of rspec macros… You might want to check it out:

http://github.com/rsl/skinny_spec/tree/master

By: maninred

maninred — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:30:12 +0000

If Rspec has test macros that will be very well, when i see the shoulda i think like that. I had try to do this but the Rspec’context too complex. So i give out. -_-

I advise you create a project about this Rspec Macros.

Thank for the post!

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By: Ben Mabey

Ben Mabey — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:21:45 +0000

@David:

Thanks for the corrections. I have made a note of your comment in the post and corrected the spelling. RSpec has already changed the way I spell behaviour, so spelling the the new word ’spec’ing’ doesn’t seem too hard. English is so inconsistent.. *sigh*

@Yossef:

I agree that it seems a little clever. Lets be honest though, dynamically creating specs is already dangerous territory. IMO, instance_variable_get is the best option here if you want to have the flexibility. However, I would understand the argument of sacrificing the flexibility and enforcing the naming to be consistent across implementation and specs.

By: Yossef

Yossef — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:38:04 +0000

Oh, right. Class method, instance variable. It’s obvious in hindsight.

Still fairly clever, though.

By: Josh Nichols

Josh Nichols — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:29:08 +0000

Great writeup. I started out on RSpec, and then fell in love with shoulda. It’s good to see that it’s pretty straight-forward to do something similar in RSpec.

@Yossef:

it_should_assign is a class method, therefore, wouldn’t have access to instance variables, like @users_photo.

The ‘it’ block inside ‘it_should_assign’ eventually defines an instance method, so it would have access to the instance variable. And that’s exactly what it does with ‘value = instance_variable_get(value)’.