pragtob / speccr

A testing library for crystal inspired by rspec3 - WIP/does not work yet

Speccr

Warning this does not even begin to work as I can't capture blocks as I'm used to from ruby, so I need a new problem resolution strategy :)

Why Speccr, we already have spec?

I love it that crystal has spec builtin as a testing library and I like using it. I tried enhancing spec with dynamic matchers and others but stumbled upon a couple of problems from my perspective. Basically spec is RSpec2 style (object.should matcher) and not RSpec3 (expect(object).to matcher) and some methods are globally available. I prefer RSpec3 :) I thought about refactoring spec but figured it might be easier to start fresh. The goals of Speccr are:

• No monkey patching
• No globally defined methods, they are all bound on Speccr objects in order not to pollute any name space
• expect syntax
• let statements
• random test execution order
• Suppport for dynamic matchers (be_empty etc.) if that's feasible

Note, I'm interested in crystal and I like the language very much, but I'm no expert so no guarantees that this will actually get done but I want to try and building a testing framework seems like fun :) But this might still take a while ;)