In this short post I’d like to show how some of RSpec components (matchers and expectations) can be used for a greater good outside your tests. Like in your normal everyday scripts.
Trying to be expressive, concise and readable, RSpec have developed a great number of idioms, mechanisms and approaches. They are reliable, most of Rubyists familiar with them, and code becames pretty expressive.
While I don’t recommend trying this at home using the tricks shown below in your Big Enterprise Production core, you may like those things for short scripts, experiments, insights, and just for fun.
