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What I hate about RSpec

In Commentary on 23 March 2009 tagged with 2 comments

This is not developer-friendly:

response.should be_success

Unless you have fully internalized RSpec, it is nigh impossible to know where the space, underscore, and period go. The goal is to come up with code that looks like sentences but the end result is to come up with something a non-developer can read but that developers shouldn’t have to write.


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“something a non-developer can read but that developers shouldn’t have to write.”

Someone reinvented COBOL?

Posted by Allan Beatty on 23 March 2009 @ 9pm

I never understood the appeal of RSpec either. For starters, how many non-coders need to look at your test cases in the first place? My guess is few to none.

Posted by ramanan on 24 March 2009 @ 1pm

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