Re: mock framework

> Carl
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> On Aug 22, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Jim Deville wrote:
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> >
> > On Aug 22, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Jay Levitt wrote:
> >
> >> David Chelimsky wrote:
> >>> I'd like to ditch rspec's mock framework and let ppl use mocha or
> >>> flexmock or RR (or others). RSpec's mocking framework doesn't really
> >>> offer anything above those frameworks, and it's therefore an
> >>> unnecessary burden to maintain.
> >> +1!  I currently use rspec's mocks because they're the default, but
> >> I'd
> >> have no problems switching frameworks.  If there's no good reason to
> >> have our own, let's not have our own.
> >>
> >> Jay
> >>
> >
> > +1, and +1 to moving things like Spec:UI and Spec:distributed. I
> > would suggest keeping the literature on mocking, with minor
> > modifications. The tight integration with mocking, and the pushing
> > the ideas in the literature is what got my team and I to use it.  The
> > current Rails literature really only shows mocks as a way to mock out
> > an external project, but I think it is good to use it to isolate
> > tests as well. I think that is proper BDD, too.
> >
> > JIm
> >
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