Basics
As the name implies, this library is part of the RSpec testing framework. However, you don’t need the rest of RSpec to use it; you can install rspec-expectations as a stand-alone gem.
| | $ gem install rspec-expectations |
The premise behind rspec-expectations is that test assertions should read like spoken sentences. The library adds a should method to every Ruby object so that instead of writing assert(2 + 2 == 4), you can write readable code like this:
| rspec/examples.rb | |
| | (2 + 2).should == 4 |
If the condition holds true, your Cucumber step will pass. If the condition is false, Cucumber will report a failure.
rspec-expectations comes with a number of matchers—these are different ways to use should (and its counterpart, should_not, which ...
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