------ art_33449_30267695.1222603662233 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Just a follow-up; I started reading through them, and the Part I of describe is for an older version, so it can be skipped. On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Corey Haines <coreyhaines / gmail.com> wrote: > Last winter, I wrote a series of blog posts dissecting the rspec code to > see > what describe/it do, as well as what happens when the examples are run. It > is from the perspective of a fairly new ruby person (as I was at the time, > and, I guess, still am), but here's links. I can't say whether they will > help you, or not, since I mostly wrote them for myself: > describe > Part I - > > http://www.coreyhaines.com/coreysramblings/2007/12/15/ARubyNewbieLooksThroughRSpecPartIIDescribe.aspx > Part II - > > http://www.coreyhaines.com/coreysramblings/2007/12/22/ARubyNewbieLooksThroughRSpecPartIIIDescribeRedux.aspx > > it > > http://www.coreyhaines.com/coreysramblings/2007/12/27/ARubyNewbieLooksThroughRSpecPartIVIt.aspx > > run > > http://www.coreyhaines.com/coreysramblings/2007/12/27/ARubyNewbieLooksThroughRSpecPartIVRunI.aspx > > Hope they can help explain it a bit. > -Corey > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Robert Klemme > <shortcutter / googlemail.com>wrote: > > > On 28.09.2008 08:18, timr wrote: > > > >> I came across the following code (see below). As President Clinton > >> famously said, "It depends on what the definition of 'it' is." I am > >> hoping someone can explain how 'it' is being used. I have come across > >> this 'it...string...do' construct before, but I didn't understand it > >> then either. > >> > >> describe IowaRubyBrigade do > >> before do > >> @irb rray.new > >> end > >> > >> it "should be a user group" do > >> @irb.should be_a_kind_of(UserGroup) > >> end > >> > >> it "should meet monthly" do > >> @irb.meeting_time.should > >> 'second Thursday of every month' > >> end > >> > >> it "should be fun" do > >> @irb.should be_fun > >> end > >> end > >> > >> When you ri it, you get: > >> > >> ---------------------------------- > >> Spec::Example::ExampleGroupMethods#it > >> it(description l, &implementation) > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Creates an instance of Spec::Example::Example and adds it to a > >> collection of examples of the current example group. > >> > >> > >> (also known as specify) > >> > >> > >> But the documentation on Spec is difficult to find. Please educate me. > >> Thanks, > >> Tim > >> > > > > "it" is a method which apparently does what your RI doc says. Most > likely > > it saves the block somewhere for later execution (i.e. in order to > perform > > the test). > > > > Fur further information you probably want to look at RSpec documentation, > > e.g. http://rspec.info/documentation/ > > > > Kind regards > > > > robert > > > > > > > -- > http://www.coreyhaines.com > The Internet's Premiere source of information about Corey Haines > -- http://www.coreyhaines.com The Internet's Premiere source of information about Corey Haines ------ art_33449_30267695.1222603662233--