Examples of Behaviour Spec'n
June 30th, 2008
In my previous post (Spec Behaviour not Implementation) I went on a froth roll about why you should treat controller actions as black boxes. Here I give an all to common example of why this is good and how you can write specs that won’t break at the most trivial change.
Read the rest of this entryTip #27 - Spec a Behaviour, Not an Implementation
June 28th, 2008
This has been said a lot, and doesn’t really need repeating by someone like me, but, as this is a tips page, I should put it here.
Read the rest of this entryTip #26 - Start Small
June 27th, 2008
If you are getting frustrated with RSpec, then you have probably skipped a gradient. Start smaller!
Read the rest of this entryTip #25 - Logging is your friend...
June 26th, 2008
Sometimes when you need someone to just look over your code and figure out what the heck is going on, you can turn to your best coding friend, this friend sits away in the log directory carefully collecting data waiting for your beck and call…
Read the rest of this entryTip #24 - Being clever in specs is for dummies
June 25th, 2008
This tip is coming to you from a frustrated developer having to read someone else’s specs….
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Latest comments
- Larry
Not real sure what should go here: ‘form:button_disable’. Can’t get this to work for me but love the idea. Disclaimer:...
- Phil
The simple example of:
begin Terminator.terminate(1) do sleep 3 end end
rescue Terminator::Error puts "Timed out"does not work for...
- Remi
Great text thank you. What if we have a model Office that has many persons? How would you handle it?
... - Dirceu Jr.
Thx!!!
- Mikel Lindsaar
@Ahsan, could you pastie your code?
- Ahsan
@Mikel: Ok, I upgraded to 0.4.4, but the problem persists.