be_valid_json¶ ↑

Makes available method be_valid_json to check to see if a string is valid JSON or not without clouding specs with exception handling code.

Installation¶ ↑

Just copy be_valid_json.rb under the ‘lib’ folder to your rspec matchers folder, and include it in your spec_helper. Some Rails programmers follow a convention where custom matchers are put in a folder under the project root called ‘spec/support/matchers’, and be_valid_json.rb could be put in that folder.

In order to make the methods provided available in your specs, include the matcher library with something like the following line (which pulls in all code under ‘support/matchers’):

Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/support/**/*.rb"].each {|f| require f}

Basic Usage¶ ↑

it "should detect valid json" do
  "foo".should_not be_valid_json
end

it "should detect invalid json" do
  {:a => :b}.to_json.should be_valid_json
end

Authors¶ ↑

Justin Leitgeb