RSpec & Shoulda one-liner description output - tdd

A one-liner in RSpec such as...
it { should validate_presence_of(:title) }
...produces the descriptive output of:
"should require title to be set"
The line of code within the matcher for this example does not prefixed the output with "should" so this must be injected by RSpec.
I'd like to remove the "should" prefix all together for my one-liners but can't find a RSpec config option or the location in RSpec's code that the injection is performed.
Has anyone done this in the past with RSpec?

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Workaround "flip-flop deprecated" warning in Ruby

I invoke Ruby from my shell script like this:
ruby -n -e "print if %r($fromre)...%r($tore)" "$#"
Since Ruby 2.6, I get the warning
warning: flip-flop is deprecated
So it seems that i have to be prepared that the wise high priests of Ruby have decided that this (IMO useful) construct will be completely gone one day.
What would be an easy work-around? Of course I can replace
print if %r($fromre)...%r($tore)
by
inside ||= %r($fromre)
if inside
print
inside = false if %r($tore)
end
but I wonder whether there is a more concise way to write this.

Ruby require modules, libraries

I'm new to ruby. I understand that, when I see a ruby script, it usually contains lines similar to this:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubyfunction1'
require 'rubyfunction2'
I understand that the require lines are basically (to put it in simple basic terms), calling other scripts. That is really all there is to it. These other scripts are functions.
Now, suppose, I put the content of the rubyfunction1 and rubyfunction2 scripts into two different variables. How do I require the content of a variable?
Or, suppose I want to be able to do something like this:
require '`/home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb`'
I understand this is a roundabout way of requiring gems/ruby functions, but I'm curious to know if it is at all possible in this manner.
Basically, if I were to run the /home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb script by itself on the command line, it will basically output to you the content of the script. It would be equivalent to doing "cat /home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb".
I want to be able to do something like this:
require '`/home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb`'
require '`/home/swenson/rubyfunction2.rb`'
or
specvar1 = `/home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb`
specvar2 = `/home/swenson/rubyfunction2.rb`
require specvar1
require specvar2
Is this possible? Any suggestions I can apply to get it to work?
UPDATE:
So here's what I ended up doing.
Main Script called example.rb:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
add = `./add.rb` # for my purposes, this will serve as require
subtract = `./subtract.rb` # for my purposes, this will serve as require
eval add
puts "I can add: #{add(3, 2)}"
eval subtract
puts "I can now subtract #{subtract(3, 2)}"
Content of add.rb:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
puts <<-function
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
def add(a, b)
a + b
end
function
Content of subtract.rb:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
puts <<-function
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
def subtract(a, b)
a - b
end
function
When run from the command line, I get no errors:
# ./example.rb
I can add: 5
I can now subtract 1
Basically, what I want done is precisely this. However, I know there's probably a optimized way of doing this (without having to directly require the relative file). So please, feel free to help me update or optimize this.
I understand that the require lines are basically (to put it in simple basic terms), calling other scripts. That is really all there is to it.
Yes. load, require, and require_relative simply run a Ruby file. That's it.
These other scripts are functions.
No. They are scripts. There is no such thing as a function in Ruby.
Now, suppose, I put the content of the rubyfunction1 and rubyfunction2 scripts into two different variables. How do I require the content of a variable?
You can't. require runs a file. It takes the name of a file (more precisely, a relative path) as an argument. Ruby code is not the name of a file.
Or, suppose i want to be able to do something like this:
require '`/home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb`'
I understand this is a roundabout way of requiring gems/ruby functions, but im curious to know if it is at all possible in this manner.
This is possible. There's nothing special about this. It will simply run a file at the path `/home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb`. That is a slightly unusual path, but there is nothing special about it. It's just a path like any other, with some funny characters in it.
so to iterate what im trying to do, i want to be able to do something like this:
require '`/home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb`'
require '`/home/swenson/rubyfunction2.rb`'
or
specvar1 = `/home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb`
specvar2 = `/home/swenson/rubyfunction2.rb`
require specvar1
require specvar2
Is this possible? Any suggestions I can apply to get it to work?
It's not quite clear what you want here. Those two code snippets are in no way equivalent, they do completely different things!
The first one passes the literal strings '`/home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb`' and '`/home/swenson/rubyfunction2.rb`' as arguments to require. The second one executes two files named /home/swenson/rubyfunction1.rb and /home/swenson/rubyfunction2.rb using the default system shell (CMD.EXE on Windows, /bin/sh on POSIX), gets the standard output as String and passes those strings to require.
Note that in the first case, the backticks ` are part of the filename, whereas in the second case, they are Ruby syntax for calling the Kernel#` method.
So, I think I understand your question correctly, let's say we have 3 files
add.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
def add(a, b)
a + b
end
subtract.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
puts "def subtract(a, b)"
puts " a - b"
puts "end"
example.rb
require './add.rb'
subtract = `./subtract.rb`
puts "I can add: #{add(3, 2)}"
# can't do `subtract`, yet, as we haven't `eval`ed the code even though we've run executed the file
eval subtract
puts "I can now subtract #{subtract(3, 2)}"
And the output of running ruby example.rb on the command line is:
$ ruby example.rb
I can add: 5
I can now subtract 1
So, add.rb just defines a function add. When we require that file, it gets loaded in so we can use that function in our code with no problems.
But, subtract.rb doesn't define a function...it just outputs some code, so running it on the command line looks like:
$ ./subtract.rb
def subtract(a, b)
a - b
end
So now, in our third file example.rb, we require the add.rb and then we can start using add in our code as is, but then we want to execute the subtract.rb (using back ticks here) and capture the output of it. At this point, we can't subtract 2 numbers, because we haven't done anything with the output. Then we use eval to evaluate the output of the subtract method, which will define a method for us, then we can subtract the 2 numbers without a problem.
Note that eval is generally frowned upon because it allows arbitrary code to be executed. Never eval untrusted code unless you know how to tame it. In this case, as #JörgWMittag has pointed out in the comments, this code should be trusted, otherwise you just executed an un-trusted file to get this code. Be careful with user input, though, as that's not trusted.

Ruby: Why do I get warning "regex literal in condition" here?

A simple Ruby program, which works well (using Ruby 2.0.0):
#!/usr/bin/ruby
while gets
print if /foo/../bar/
end
However, Ruby also outputs the warning warning: regex literal in condition. It seems that Ruby considers my flip-flop-expression /foo/../bar/ as dangerous.
My question: Where lies the danger in this program? And: Can I turn off this warning (ideally only for this statement, keeping other warnings active)?
BTW, I found on the net several discussions of this kind of code, also mentioning the warning, but never found a good explanation why we get warned.
You can avoid the warning by using an explicit match:
while gets
print if ~/foo/..~/bar/
end
Regexp#~ matches against $_.
I don't know why the warning is shown (to be honest, I wasn't even aware that Ruby matches regexp literals against $_ implicitly), but according to the parser's source code, it is shown unless you provide the -e option when invoking Ruby, i.e. passing the script as an argument:
$ ruby -e "while gets; print if /foo/../bar/ end"
I would avoid using $_ as an implicit parameter and instead use something like:
while line = gets
print line if line=~/foo/..line=~/bar/
end
I think Neil Slater is right: It looks like a bug in a parser. If I change the code to
#!/usr/bin/ruby
while gets
print if $_=~/foo/..$_=~/bar/
end
the warning disappears.
I'll file a bug report.

Any way to automagically `puts` the last expression in a Ruby script?

I'm working on implementing Project Euler solutions as semantic Ruby one-liners. It would be extremely useful if I could coerce Ruby to automatically puts the value of the last expression. Is there a way to do this? For example:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -Ilib -rrubygems -reuler
1.upto(100).into {|n| (n.sum.squared - n.map(&:squared).sum)
I realize I can simply puts the line, but for other reasons (I plan to eval the file in tests, to compare against the expected output) I would like to avoid an explicit puts. Also, it allots me an extra four characters for the solution. :)
Is there anything I can do?
You might try running it under irb instead of directly under a Ruby interpreter.
It seems like the options -f --noprompt --noverbose might be suitable (.
#!/usr/bin/env irb -f --noprompt --noverbose -Ilib -rrubygems -reuler
'put your one-liner here'
The options have these meanings:
-f: do not use .irbrc (or IRBRC)
--noverbose: do not display the source lines
--noprompt: do not prefix the output (e.g. with =>)
result = calculate_result
puts result if File.exist?(__FILE__)
result of eval is last executed operation just like any other code block in ruby
is doing
puts eval(file_contents)
an option for you?
EDIT
you can make use of eval's second parameter which is variables binding
try the following:
do_not_puts = true
eval(file_contents, binding)
and in the file:
....
result = final_result
if defined?(do_not_puts)
result
else
puts(result)
end
Is it an option to change the way you run scripts?
script.rb:
$_= 1.upto(100).into {|n| (n.sum.squared - n.map(&:squared).sum)
invoke with
echo nil.txt | /usr/bin/env/ruby -Ilib -rrubygems -reuler -p script.rb, where nil.txt is a file with a single newline.

Is it possible to stringify parameters in ruby/irb?

I'm new to ruby ... wondering if the following is possible:
I currently run a test app within irb (irb -r test.rb) and manually execute
various command implemented in test.rb. One of these functions is currently implemented as follows:
def cli(cmd)
ret=$client.Cli(cmd)
print ret, "\n"
end
Where $client.Cli() takes a string. I currently type the following in the IRB prompt
> cli "some command with parameters"
This is sent over socket and results are returned
I would like to be able to do this WITHOUT the quotes. This would be just for this command
Is there a way to do this generally in ruby? if not how would you extend irb to do this?
For those who know 'C' this would be like the following:
#define CLI(CMD) cli(#CMD)
CLI(Quadafi and Sheen walk into a bar...)
where the pre-processed output is:
cli("Quadafi and Sheen walk into a bar...")
Thanks
You could actually monkey patch the gets method of the IRB::StdioInputMethod and IRB::ReadlineInputMethod classes, and perform a rewrite if the cli method is called, by adding the following to your test.rb file:
module IRB
def self.add_quotes(str)
str.gsub(/^cli (..+?)(\\+)?$/, 'cli "\1\2\2"') unless str.nil?
end
class StdioInputMethod
alias :old_gets :gets
def gets
IRB::add_quotes(old_gets)
end
end
class ReadlineInputMethod
alias :old_gets :gets
def gets
IRB::add_quotes(old_gets)
end
end
end
This way, any input line matching cli ... will be replaced with cli "..." before it's evaluated.
I don't think it's possible, because the command that you type to irb has to parse as ruby, and all those bare words will report errors like this:
NameError: undefined local variable or method `hello' for main:Object
(My first attempt, I just called it via cli hello.)
But if you didn't mind a more radical change, you could do something like this:
$ cat /tmp/test_cases
hello world
one
two
three
riding the corpse sled
$ ruby -e 'def f(arg) puts arg end' -ne 'f($_)' < /tmp/test_cases
hello world
one
two
three
riding the corpse sled
I just defined a simple function f() here that would show how it works; you could replace f($_) with $Client.cli($_), and set up the $Client global variable in the first -e argument. And you can leave off the < /tmp/test_cases if you want to type them in interactively:
$ ruby -e 'def f(arg) puts arg end' -ne 'f($_)'
hello
hello
world
world
Of course, if you want it to be any more advanced than this, I'd just write a script to do it all, rather than build something hideous from -pe or -ne commands.

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