Thanks to both Pat and Scott for the first two comments. I'm digesting what you are saying. I'll take these ideas (and any others that come) and try to summarize them in and upcoming post.<br><br>Thanks.<br>-Corey<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 27, 2007 12:21 PM, Pat Maddox <<a href="mailto:pergesu@gmail.com">pergesu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Dec 27, 2007 8:30 AM, Corey Haines <<a href="mailto:coreyhaines@gmail.com">coreyhaines@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I expected to see SharedExampleGroup < ExampleGroup, but, instead, I saw
<br>> SharedExampleGroup < Module. This is incredibly confusing to me. I realize<br>> that they don't even need to have any relationship to each other since they<br>> get their shared functionality through the module ExampleGroupMethods, but
<br>> it still seems a bit odd to me that they don't have a hierarchical<br>> relationship.<br><br></div>Whenever you write an example, RSpec defines a method. Shared example<br>groups are basically sugary modules. They define examples - methods -
<br>that get included into your "real" example groups.<br><br>I can't say for sure if there's any deeper meaning to it other than<br>it's the simplest implementation. It would be possible to make<br>
SharedExampleGroup be a class, but then when an ExampleGroup uses<br>it_should_behave_like, it would have to list all the examples in the<br>SharedExampleGroup, define methods on itself that delegate to the<br>SEG...as opposed to just mixing in a module :)
<br><br>I admit I'm pulling all of this out of my ass, btw, but I think it's<br>right. I'm sure David will clarify soon.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Pat<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________
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