Allow should in as a shortcut for it "should..."
Reported by Paul Barry | May 21st, 2008 @ 03:25 AM | in No-Milestone-Assigned
I find that 95% of my specs are it "should...". Also, sometimes the it doesn't even make sense:
describe "my_method" do
it "should be wonderful"
end
The spec is "my_method should be wonderful", not "my_method it should be wonderful".
What about adding this syntax?
describe "my_method" do
should "be wonderful"
end
Which is trivial to support with:
module Spec::Example::ExampleGroupMethods
def should(spec, &block)
it("should #{spec}", &block)
end
end
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Pat Maddox May 21st, 2008 @ 07:00 AM
The spec is "my_method should be wonderful", not "my_method it should be wonderful"
It's also not "describe my_method should be wonderful."
I think the it makes perfect sense syntactically. "Tell me something about my_method." "Well, it should be wonderful." And the formatters turn that into a nice sentence - "my_method should be wonderful"
Anyway, I would prefer not to add more syntax to rspec core. And as you said, it's a trivial three lines that people can drop in spec_helper if they really want.
Anyone else care to weigh in?
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Pat Maddox July 19th, 2008 @ 09:08 AM
- → State changed from “new” to “wontfix”
- → Tag changed from “” to “featurerequest”
Seems to be a stale ticket. Closing.
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