lhoffmanwg / 051319-lyft-practice

Lyft Practice

You're building an app in the style of Lyft/Uber

A lot of starter code has been filled out already, and there are RSpec tests for all of the deliverables listed. In order to mimic the way you'll be working during a code challenge, I encourage you to use the console to test your methods as you would in a code challenge environment. After you have your method written and you feel it is passing, then run the tests to confirm.

Using the console

You can use the console with ruby tools/console.rb. Inspect this file to find instances of each class instantiated with proper relationships. You may use these to test your own methods, or create your own instances as well.

Running the specs

You can run the specs with rspec. RSpec comes with a lot of different options. You may know of the --fail-fast or --f-f option which allows you to only see one failing test at a time. In addition, there is a --example or -e flag, which allows you to supply a string that is used to only run tests that contain the supplied substring within their description block. For example, if we have a test written as such:

it "runs this test with the example flag" do
	expect(true).to be(true)
end

In addition to not being a particularly helpful test, we can target only this test with the command `rspec -e runs. We can also replace the word "runs" with any string contained in the first line of the test. This is very useful for only running specific tests.