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David Chelimsky
Personal blog · blog.davidchelimsky.netprogramming
David Chelimsky's personal blog at blog.davidchelimsky.net covers programming. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Spec smell: explicit use of subject”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Rails testing thread as a source for RSpec's creator's view on a spec smell (explicit subject). The one comment cites it as support and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
TL;DR Myron Marston is taking over leadership of the RSpec project, and will be the lead maintainer of the rspec-core, rspec-expectations, and rspec- …
Most-linked posts?
- Spec smell: explicit use of subject2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-15
What Hacker News says?
Not really. At least RSpec's creator doesn't think so ( http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2012/05/13/spec-smell-explici... ).
Comment linking /2012/05/13/spec-smell-explicit-use-of-subject/
on “Learn how to test Rails using Test::Unit instead of Rspec”Submitted RSpec-2.0.0 is released as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted David Chelimsky on rake 0.9 and gem version constraints as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Myron Marston and Andy Lindeman are RSpec’s new project leads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spec smell: explicit use of subject as a story · 1 points
HN discussion