RSpec claims nil to be false

Arne Hartherz

June 29, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

RSpec's be_false behaves unexpectedly:

nil.should be_false
# passes, as the expectation returns true

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If you want to check for false, you need to do it like this:

nil.should == false
# fails as expected

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RSpec: be_true does not actually check if a value is true

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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2012-06-29 12:19)