Ruby on Rails Saturday, December 25, 2010

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daze wrote in post #970694:
> Alright. Here's one roadblock.
> So what I understand w/BDD is that I should write all these tests,
> watch them fail, and then code to make the tests pass.

No. Write *one* test, watch it fail, make it pass, refactor as
necessary. Then write the next test. Lather, rinse, repeat.

> But the error
> messages I get from running tests don't provide as much insight as
> doing "rails server" and then seeing whatever error comes up... I
> don't understand how people do this.

Probably by writing more atomic tests. Could you give an example test
that wasn't as useful as you would have liked?

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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