I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” (2021)

Re:I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstra... by HumanOstrich on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:38PM (#37315072)

Thank you for the link. This is inspiring. Do you have any resources you could link to that would explain some or all of the style for these tests?

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Re:I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstra... by ezekg on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:30PM (#37317333)

Honestly, I don't have many resources to provide. I read a lot of policy tests via GitHub search (e.g. path:spec/policies/*/*.rb), but couldn't find anything that looked like what I wanted. I wrote the DSL as-needed in order to fully test my app's authz while migrating from Pundit to ActionPolicy (while also introducing fine-grained permissions).

It's not the prettiest when you actually look beneath the covers [0], but it does what I wanted -- providing an easy way to write exhaustive authz tests. Without the DSL, I probably wouldn't have written the tests. The PR for said migration was massive [1], and was a prerequisite to going open source [2].

[0]: https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api/blob/master/spec/sup...

[1]: https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api/pull/647

[2]: https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api/issues/644

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Re:I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstra... by HumanOstrich on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:03AM (#37317880)

Thanks! I'll dig around in the pull request and issue as well.

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