rspec users - Jan 2011 - formatting of one-line specs - question

For easy editing, I love one-line specs, like this:

  specify { 1.should == 1 }

But when using ''--format documentation'', one-line specs
don''t always
render useful documentation.

A solution is to write one-line specs using do/end:

  it "succeeds with do/end" do 1.should == 1 end

That''s ok - but its difficult to visually parse.  One-line specs with
braces would be better IMHO.

Here''s a first example with braces ( this doesn''t work ):

  it "should work this way, but doesn''t" { 1.should == 1 }

Here''s a second example with braces ( this works ):

  it("works this way") { 1.should == 1 }

Is there any way to make the first ''braces'' format work??

( I''m using Ruby 1.8.7 / Rspec 2.4.0 / Ubuntu 10.10 )

Thanks, Andy

On Jan 16, 2011, at 1:35 PM, andyl wrote:
> For easy editing, I love one-line specs, like this:
> 
>  specify { 1.should == 1 }
> 
> But when using ''--format documentation'', one-line specs
don''t always
> render useful documentation.
> 
> A solution is to write one-line specs using do/end:
> 
>  it "succeeds with do/end" do 1.should == 1 end
> 
> That''s ok - but its difficult to visually parse.  One-line specs
with
> braces would be better IMHO.
> 
> Here''s a first example with braces ( this doesn''t work ):
> 
>  it "should work this way, but doesn''t" { 1.should == 1
}
> 
> Here''s a second example with braces ( this works ):
> 
>  it("works this way") { 1.should == 1 }
> 
> Is there any way to make the first ''braces'' format work??
AFAIK, no. That''s just the way the Ruby parser works.