Railscasts - Refactoring User Name Part 3

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Mar 30, 2007

Refactoring User Name Part 3

In the final part of this series you will see how to refactor your tests. Keeping tests clean is important because it will make testing easier to do in the future.

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# user_test.rb
def test_full_name
  assert_equal 'John Doe', full_name('John', nil, 'Doe'), "nil middle initial"
  assert_equal 'John H. Doe', full_name('John', 'H', 'Doe'), "H middle initial"
  assert_equal 'John Doe', full_name('John', '', 'Doe'), "blank middle initial"
end

def full_name(first, middle, last)
  User.new(:first_name => first, :middle_initial => middle, :last_name => last).full_name
end