Condense built-in and DSL RSpec matcher inspection output #203
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Problem
In diff output, some RSpec matchers, such as custom DSL-defined matchers and built-ins like
be_a
, are treated as default objects. This means that their fully-qualified class names and all instance variables are recursively printed, which can make the output quite verbose! Here's a very small example spec:which outputs the following diff:
You can imagine this could get much longer with more complex expectations.
Solution
Use the matcher's description on inspection. For the case above, this results in the following: