Spec-me-maybe: Introduces the “maybe” syntax to RSpec

I find it quite funny that people cannot tell whether this is a joke or not, just says something about the state of things...

While this is obviously a joke, I can see it having a limited amount of practical value. Imagine, for example, being tasked with updating a poorly-maintained legacy code base with a large number of indeterminately failing specs containing order dependencies. You could `RSpec::Maybe` everything until you're sure you have the order dependencies resolved, then convert to regular `RSpec::Expectation`s.

Love the build status badge. Nice touch.

Everything should also take `.maybe.it_wont` at the end, for completeness.

I can see wondering if this was a joke as &#x27;maybe&#x27; is mildly reminiscent of promise[1] and the like but if you got to .on_my_machine and still couldn&#x27;t figure it out, you got some &#x27;splainin to do. :)<p>[1] <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/09/11/asynchronous-programming-in-javascript-with-promises.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;ie&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;asynchronous-p...</a>

This may be a joke, but there are valid scenarios for this sort of thing, which is why rspec has pending and skipped tests:<p><a href="https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/3-1/docs/pending-and-skipped-examples" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;relishapp.com&#x2F;rspec&#x2F;rspec-core&#x2F;v&#x2F;3-1&#x2F;docs&#x2F;pending-an...</a>

<p><pre><code> it &#x27;probably should not raise any sort of error&#x27; do maybe { user }.will_not raise_error end </code></pre> I snorted on that one.

maybe(test).will be_success.on_my_machine<p>I can’t stop laughing right now. Well done boys, well done.

This is really funny, thanks for sharing.

The epitome of programming in Ruby.

Is this serious or a joke? If its serious I seems like a bloody awful idea!! What is the point of a maybe test??

This has to be a joke. I&#x27;m fond of TDD just as much as the next person, but seriously, some of you RSpec fanatics have lost your minds.