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Every good project needs a good setup. In this episode, I set up a github repo, create a new rails application, hook in Cucumber and Rspec, write a Cucumber feature, and write the code to make it pass.
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RSpec gives us many powerful tools to make our tests readable. Matchers allow us to provide custom predicates to our should statements that succinctly define the behavior of our code.
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RSpec provides an extremely concise way of representing simple tests to be called on new instances of a class or on explicitly defined receiver objects. You can do this by using ‘subjects’ either as defined by the ‘describe’ or the ‘subject’ methods.
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Anybody can learn to write code. The hard part is solving problems, not typing commands. This means that learning to program is a mental exercise followed by its interpretation into code.
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