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Ruby

Posted by jasmine noack
jasmine noack
398 Points

ruby method describe <nomethoderror>

I am trying to run a practice exercise in ruby.

require_relative "hello"

describe "the hello function" do it "says hello" do hello.should == "Hello!" end end

the program I believe is to test out RSpec and walks through several errors.

Unfortunately I am getting an error I'm not suppose to get. It is saying that there is a no method error for describe. I have tried to reinstall rspec and I have tried to google the error and have found nothing. I have also tried to use the describe method in IRB but I get the same error.

If there something I need to do to teach my computer the method describe?

1 Answer

David O' Rojo
David O' Rojo
11,051 Points
David O' Rojo
David O' Rojo
11,051 Points

If you are using a recent version of RSpec, the describe method is to be called from the RSpec module:

require_relative 'hello'

RSpec.describe 'my hello function' do
  it "says hello" do
    expect(hello).to eql("Hello!")
  end
end

Note that you must have the rspec gem installed (gem install rspec). Then issue:

$ rspec hello_spec.rb