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I posted a quick screencast demonstrating some BDD with RSpec yesterday: http://wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/05/ behaviourdriven.php I''m a C/Objective-C programmer who knows a bit of Ruby, almost nothing about Rails, and in BDD I can really only claim "new but interested" status. It''s not scripted, it''s totally improvised...

Hi all, I committed a first cut at blockless Givens/Whens/Thens to RSpec''s trunk: cd /path/to/rspec/project svn up cd rspec bin/spec examples/story/calculator.rb Take a look at examples/story/calculator.rb to see what''s going on. Needs docs!!!! Thoughts welcome. I''ve also got a cut at the plain text parser checked in, but it''s not hooked up to anything

...d RSpec automatically picks them up when run using "rake spec". Before I go ahead and patch rspec_on_rails/lib/autotest/ rails_rspec.rb so that autotest can monitor these specs I''d like to ask whether this is the "standard" location for such specs or not. Cheers, Wincent

Hi Are there any tools around that make rspec''s failure messages easier to read? unit_diff from ZenTest doesn''t seem to work - unless I missed something. A simple but very helpful improvement would be to use more line- breaks, e.g. Current output: expected "this is a very long string blah blah", got "this is a very very long string blah blah" (using

...jetspeed/portal/cms/Sites/destatis/Internet/DE/Content/Wissenschaftsforum/Kolloquien/VisualisierungModellierung__Beitrag,property=file.pdf ) looks pretty good. I wonder if there is any function for such plot? Or any suggestion on how to present statistical models in a presentation? Thank you. -- Wincent Rong-gui HUANG Doctoral Candidate Dept of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html

We use Samba 2.0.6 as server, the clients are about 10 NCD WinCenter (NT 3.51 multiuser, WinCenter 3.0.34 based on Citrix WinFrame 1.6) machines with about 70 concurrent users each and several WinCenter (as above) and NT Terminal Server (NT 4.0 multiuser with MetaFrame/WinCenter (X11 addon)) machines. The 2.0.6 smb.conf manpage says: nt smb support (G)...

...;t produce a corresponding spec file for this controller. I''ve made a spec file (spec/controllers/application_spec.rb) so that I can test these methods, but I''m not sure if this is the right thing to do. Should I be testing only the non-abstract subclasses instead? Cheers, Wincent

Autotest is running continuously - even when the files mtimes aren''t changing. I believe this only happens if using a failures file. autotest -v gives me: euclid% autotest -v loading autotest/rails_rspec /opt/local/bin/ruby -S script/spec -O spec/spec.opts spec/ controllers/log_entries_controller_spec.rb spec/views/login/ new_spec.rb spec/controllers/login_controller_spec.rb

.... Can someone please clarify why use of fixtures are not recommended? Anyone care to recommend an active, open source Rails project that''s using RSpec and which is an exemplar of "best practice"? I''d really like to get things right first time, if I can... Cheers, Wincent

I'm looking for experiences with the various Multi-User NT products with SAMBA, and in general. My intent is to set up a single Multi-User NT box as a shared email/productivity program environment for my six full time UNIX users. My environment is such that I'll be using Outlook 97 to talk to MS Exchange 5.5 servers, and running MS Office Pro 97 (among other) tools from SGI 6.4

[wincent at PC-BSD]export MAKE=gmake [wincent at PC-BSD]sudo R ..... > install.packages("Matrix") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL 'http://bibs.snu.ac.kr/R/src/contrib/Matrix_0.999375-9.tar.gz' Content type 'app...

...ist(a=2,b=2)) I want to find out the elements with value of NULL and replace them with NA. The actual case has a very long list, so manually find out and replace them is not an option. I can use for loop to do this, but I want to know if there is vectorized way (or other ways) to do it? Thanks -- Wincent Rong-gui HUANG Doctoral Candidate Dept of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html

...erated automatically which may contain characters such as ? < >, unacceptable in Windows OS. What I do at this moment is to strip such characters off with gsub(). Is there any direct way to make legitimate file path without detailed knowledge about the naming rule specific to a OS? Best -- Wincent Ronggui HUANG Sociology Department of Fudan University PhD of City University of Hong Kong http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/rghuang/cv/

...1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) 2: normal R exit 3: exit R without saving workspace 4: exit R saving workspace Selection: 1 aborting ... Segmentation fault When I select 1, there is still no saved core dump. I guess because it is not enabled. May I ask how to enable this option? Thanks. -- Wincent Rong-gui HUANG Doctoral Candidate Dept of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...eaking the specs. In many cases, this might not matter. But what if I want to test for alternating divs (odd, even, odd even)? I can add multiple have_tag assertions but their order won''t be considered, so I''m not really testing the alternation, only for existence. Cheers, Wincent

I think we all know that the readability of steps isn''t great right now, and in fact there''s a very recent thread that discusses just that. It was that recent thread that prompted me to explore this a bit. The basic idea is that you define step matchers, which have a regex, and then you match step names against that regex. Kind of tough for me to explain so I''ll just

...''t have any side- effects and running them twice is harmless, and in any case getting rid of the nesting (putting all the specs in a single shared behaviour block) gets rid of the duplicate. But I''m wondering, is this a bug? Feature? Am I abusing shared behaviours? Cheers, Wincent

...ain problem with fixtures, for me, has always been how unfun > they are. They literally suck the fun out of anything they?re > around. You throw them in your test/ directory, then suddenly > testing is, like, work. But it?s not work, dammit. This is Ruby, > dammit. > Cheers, Wincent

...pported" way? And a quick bug report (can''t login to RubyForge due to transparent proxy issues): The README.txt file that comes with Spec::UI 0.2.2 points to a non- existent page: <http://blog.aslakhellesoy.com/articles/2006/12/02/getting- screenshots-from-watir> Cheers, Wincent

A long time ago, and I could be mistaken, I thought samba could be configured so that instead of a smbd process per user/machine it would spawn a process per share/user/machine. If it still can, could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! Weldon Godfrey Sr. Systems Specialist Science Applications International Corporation