Source Code for that Testing Library

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering 
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
  —Leonard Cohen

Yesterday, I posted on a trivial little testing library I hacked together.I’ve put the source online. Get the source through Rob’s git repository (see below).

In the meantime, I discovered a problem with the idea of intercepting comparison operators, the technique used by the expect method. Ruby doesn’t really have != and !~ methods. Instead, the parser maps(a != b) into !(a == b). This means that the ComparisonProxy cannot intercept calls to either of these. This is a problem because

   expect(1) != 1

actually passes, because it becomes !(expect(1) == 1), and the expect method is happy with that.

I’m betting there’s a way around this…

Update: 14:26 CDT.

• Rob Sanheim has set up a Git repository for the code. He says
  

  
  

  I’ve put this up on github to watch what forks or releases develop around it.

  
  

  git clone git://github.com/rsanheim/prag_dave_testing.git
  

  
  

  
  


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  Michael Neumann suggested a way around the negated == and =~ tests using source inspection:

  
  

  class ComparatorProxy
     def ==(obj)
       # try to get the source code position of the call
       # and see if it's a != or a ==
     end
  end