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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
  • Or to put it another way (Score:1)

    by pdcawley (485)

    I really, really, really hate that extraneous fscking do. If only the language would let me declare things so I could write:
    
    
describe Something
    it "should do stuff"
        do_stuff_with_it
    end
end

    
    I'd be a good deal happier. Yes, I could write a source filter type thing in the runner, but I don't want the pain of having to parse the whole of the rest of bloody ruby just to get rid of that stupid do
    
    But, hey, ruby pays my mortgage and I'll swap the aesthetic pain
    • Re:Or to put it another way (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2008.02.07 11:34 (#60941) Homepage Journal

      Have you seen Devel::Declare? It’ll provide half a macro system – for Perl 5.

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