rspec users - Jan 2007 - Something cool I learned about rspec today

I found an awesome feature today.  When you''re setting expectations,
you can actually pattern match the parameters to methods.  Here''s my
discussion and example:
http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/1/19/parameter-matching-in-rspec

Pat

On 19 Jan 2007, at 10:05, Pat Maddox wrote:
> I found an awesome feature today.  When you''re setting
expectations,
> you can actually pattern match the parameters to methods.  Here''s
my
> discussion and example:
> http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/1/19/parameter-matching-in-rspec
Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you needed to pass a  
regex as a message argument?

Ashley

On 1/19/07, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I found an awesome feature today.  When you''re setting
expectations,
> you can actually pattern match the parameters to methods.  Here''s
my
> discussion and example:
> http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/1/19/parameter-matching-in-rspec
>
Nice writeup Pat!
> Pat
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On 1/19/07, Ashley Moran <work at ashleymoran.me.uk>
wrote:
>
> On 19 Jan 2007, at 10:05, Pat Maddox wrote:
>
> > I found an awesome feature today.  When you''re setting
expectations,
> > you can actually pattern match the parameters to methods. 
Here''s my
> > discussion and example:
> > http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/1/19/parameter-matching-in-rspec
>
> Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you needed to pass a
> regex as a message argument?
>
Your mock expectation would look the same, and you''d have to call the
method with an eql regexp to make it pass. -Like the example in the
docs illustrates.

Aslak
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