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Calm down dear, it's only programming (Score:1)

by pdcawley (485)

I've never quite understood the RSpec crowd's obsession with renaming things, but as a library RSpec kicks the default ruby Test::Unit's arse so comprehensively otherwise.

Nor do I understand the style that has them use do ... end style blocks to wrap code that, at it's best looks declarative. It's not impossible to write:

describe SomeClass { it "should be instantiable" { SomeClass.new.should_not be_nil } }

which seems a good deal cleaner. Many ruby progr
- Re:Calm down dear, it's only programming (Score:2)
  
  by djberg96 (2603) on 2008.02.07 16:09 (#60954) Journal
  
  Many ruby programmers appear to be blind to ugliness of do declaration end though.
  That's why I use brackets instead. ;)
  
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