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for the assertion. If you _want_ to express a complex condition for
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the _Then_, you need to use ||, && or some other logical operation
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to join the conditions into a single expression (and the failure
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restriction. This means that assertions in a Then clause should not
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_Disabled_ context overrides the setting inherited from _Outer_ and
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### Matchers and Natural Assertions
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when an assertion is not met. Natural assertions provide
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self-explanatory failure messages for most things without requiring
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useful to create special objects that respond to the == operator.
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#### Asserting Nearly Equal with Fuzzy Numbers
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# Using natural assertions
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### Processing Natural Assertions
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condition and find all the sub-expression values upon a failure.
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said that Ripper support is coming soon and may arrive as early as
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version 1.7.3. Until then, natural assertions are disabled when
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running under JRuby. Never fear, JRuby supports all the other features
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of rspec-given and will work just fine.
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Natural assertions were inspired by the [wrong assertion
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library](http://rubygems.org/gems/wrong) by [Alex
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Chaffee](http://rubygems.org/profiles/alexch) and [Steve
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Conover](http://rubygems.org/profiles/sconoversf).
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## Configuration
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the examples to produce better looking output. If you don't care about
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the pretty output and wish to disable source code caching
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unconditionally, then add the following line to your spec helper file:
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natural assertions, add one of the following lines to your spec_helper
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file:
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# ... even when should/expect are detected
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# License
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RSpec-Given is available under the MIT License. See the MIT-LICENSE
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file in the source distribution.
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# History
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* Remove flog, flay and other development tools from the bundle and
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they are not there.
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# Links
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* Github: [https://github.com/jimweirich/rspec-given](https://github.com/jimweirich/rspec-given)
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* Clone URL: git://github.com/jimweirich/rspec-given.git
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* Bug/Issue Reporting: [https://github.com/jimweirich/rspec-given/issues](https://github.com/jimweirich/rspec-given/issues)
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* Continuous Integration: [http://travis-ci.org/#!/jimweirich/rspec-given](http://travis-ci.org/#!/jimweirich/rspec-given)
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