= matchy

• http://github.com/jeremymcanally/matchy

== DESCRIPTION: Hate writing assertions? Need a little behavior-driven love in your tests? Then matchy is for you.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• Get the beauty of RSpec without all the overhead
• Create your own matchers with ease and def_matcher()

== SYNOPSIS:

• Get BDD on your objects

  x = 13 * 4 x.should == 42

  y = "hello" y.length.should_not be(4)

• Use familiar syntax to specify things

  RSpec

  "my string".should =~ /string/ lambda { raise "FAIL" }.should raise_error

  matchy

  "my string".should =~ /string/ lambda { raise "FAIL" }.should raise_error

• Most of familiar RSpec Matchers are built in

  raise_error matcher

  lambda {raise}.should raiseerror #pass lambda {raise MyCustomError.new}.should raiseerror(MyCustomError) #pass lambda {raise "message"}.should raiseerror("message") #pass lambda {raise "message"}.should raiseerror(/essa/) #pass

  change matcher

  lambda {@var+=1}.should change {@var}

  passes

  lambda { }.should change {@var}

  fails

  @var = 1 lambda {@var+=1}.should change {@var}.from(1).to(2)

  passes

  be_something matcher

  @obj.should be_something

  passes if @obj.something? is true

  • a lot more ...

• Get the speed of Test:Unit with the syntax of RSpec

• Create your own matchers

  nil_matcher (As a simple and quick example)

  defmatcher :benil do |receiver, matcher, args| receiver.nil? end

  nil.should benil # pass nil.shouldnot benil # fails 'notnil'.should benil # fails 'notnil'.shouldnot benil # pass

  have(n).somethings matcher (A little bit more complex)

  defmatcher :have do |receiver, matcher, args|
  count = args[0] something = matcher.msgs[0].name actual = receiver.send(something).length matcher.positivemsg = "Expected #{receiver} to have #{actual} #{something}, but found #{count} " actual == count end

  class Thing
    def widgets
      @widgets ||= []
    end
  end
  @thing.should have(3).widgets 
  

== REQUIREMENTS:

• Test::Unit (you got it)

== INSTALL:

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
$ sudo gem install mhennemeyer-matchy

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Jeremy McAnally

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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