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August 17th, 2007

Apparently I’ve reached some sense of balance. I’m 1/2 way there (somewhere). 1:59 since it all began, 1:59 left to go …

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  1. Doug Wright
    Doug Wright Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 06:06 AM

    David, Sorry to put this comment on the wrong post – I don’t comment much on blogs and spent a long time writing this against the peepcode post only to find when I submitted it that the post isn’t open for interaction anymore. Hope you don’t mind that I post this here!

    I'm here at the Rails Edge conference and saw your talk on rspec (and heard others talking about it).  I'm really excited about using it, but I'm having problems seeing the whole picture.  When you say that the peepcode tutorial goes "all the way through describing models", do you mean that it covers all of the rails areas (views, controllers, helpers, etc.) and ends with models?  I'm really interested in seeing the whole picture of working through the layers of a rails app in the way you discussed today (starting with the view) and I can't seem to find a good sequencing of this anywhere in a tutorial style (yet - I saw the book mention above - congrats!)

    I also really liked the way that you showed an example of putting a true Cohn-style user story at the beginning of your description – are there good examples of that approach anywhere? I have to admit that I’m still kind of confused about the different forms of describe (1 arg using string, 1 arg using type, 2 strings) and when to use them and why. I saw another blog post of yours where you talk about it but I’m not quite picking it up.

    Finally, is there anywhere I can read a full rails app with rspec all over it that you feel is a good example?

    Sorry for the long comment… Great stuff – I’m excited to use it!

  2. Doug Wright
    Doug Wright Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 06:06 AM

    Ok – now I really look like a moron ;-) Sorry about the code snippet formatting above – not even sure why that happened…

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