Jared Ning ordinaryzelig

I'm a fan of MiniTest::Spec. It strikes a nice balance between the simplicity of TestUnit and the readable syntax of RSpec. When I first switched from RSpec to MiniTest::Spec, one thing I was worried I would miss was the ability to add matchers. (A note in terminology: "matchers" in MiniTest::Spec refer to something completely different than "matchers" in RSpec. I won't get into it, but from now on, let's use the proper term: "expectations").

Understanding MiniTest::Expectations

Let's take a look in the code (I'm specifically referring to the gem, not the standard library that's built into Ruby 1.9):

# minitest/spec.rb

module MiniTest::Expectations

I just released a gem called minispec-metadata which allows you to add metadata to specs similar to RSpec. It can be useful to use with Capybara so you can easily switch drivers on a per-spec basis.

describe 'Usage', some: 'metadata' do

  before do
    # Example usefulness:
    # Capybara.current_driver = metadata[:driver]
  end

 it 'defines a metadata method', more: 'metadata' do

	guard 'coffeescript', {
	:output => '.compiledJS',
	:bare => true
	} do
	watch %r{(.*/(.+\.coffee))}
	end

	Pending:
	HomeController posts exposure exposes posts related to a specific network if params[:timeline_network_type] is given
	# Not Yet Implemented
	# ./spec/controllers/home_controller_spec.rb:22
	ListenersHelper add some examples to (or delete) /Users/ningj/dev/projects/sv_studio/spec/helpers/listeners_helper_spec.rb
	# Not Yet Implemented
	# ./spec/helpers/listeners_helper_spec.rb:14
	Resque::Failure::RetryNotifier stores failures in redis in addition to sending notifications.
	# Not Yet Implemented
	# ./spec/lib/resque/failure/retry_notifier_spec.rb:202

	1) GnipRule
	Failure/Error: it { should have_many(:gnip_rule_network_posts)}
	ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
	PGError: ERROR: relation "gnip_rule_network_posts" does not exist
	LINE 4: WHERE a.attrelid = '"gnip_rule_network_posts"':...
	^
	: SELECT a.attname, format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod), d.adsrc, a.attnotnull
	FROM pg_attribute a LEFT JOIN pg_attrdef d
	ON a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND a.attnum = d.adnum
	WHERE a.attrelid = '"gnip_rule_network_posts"'::regclass

	<a href="http://www.okcmoa.com/see/films/beasts-of-the-southern-wild/">
	<img class="alignnone wp-image-11218" title="Film-Images-Master-specialtycaddy" src="http://www.okcmoa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Film-Images-Master-specialtycaddy.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="347">
	<img class=" wp-image-11226 alignnone" title="Film-Images-Master-specialtyBeasts-of-the-wild" src="http://www.okcmoa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Film-Images-Master-specialtyBeasts-of-the-wild.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="347">
	</a>

	Received: (qmail 12010 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2012 21:44:04 -0000
	Received: from unknown (HELO mx-out.facebook.com) ([69.171.232.140])
	by 66.11.233.84 with SMTP; 16 Aug 2012 21:44:04 -0000
	Return-Path: <[email protected]>
	DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=facebookappmail.com; s=s1024-2011-q2; c=relaxed/simple;
	q=dns/txt; [email protected]; t=1345153444;
	h=From:Subject:Date:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type;
	bh=sdzmpH6zCuJpI2mmOdexkDRtc4bVgUqKmax9LwXmjkw=;
	b=JILs+g7DtW/A9bsAu46l1WcCEchKO8WTL92d9kJmkiR3BEcAYeu0DogwK5DuYv61
	9l1E4LwXH5uvC6x93v2onLwo8NqP/N+TQi0hPMAR4xPN42/t5q5RGLKgUuKBkUub

	[
	{
	"nominees": [
	{
	"film": "Amour",
	"nominee": "Nominees to be determined"
	},
	{
	"film": "Argo",
	"nominee": "Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers"

	send(route.fetch(:http_method).downcase, url) {
	if (handler)
	respond_with_json_protocol do \|protocol\|
	handler.add_to_response(params, protocol)
	end
	else
	erb route.fetch(:name)
	end
	end

	.rvmrc
	Gemfile
	Gemfile.lock