00:06 <FromGitter> <skinnyjames> Hi all, I have a question / use case around providing context to specs. (sure this has been brought up before) ⏎ I'm writing a webdriver client, and I'd like to provide a browser to a grouping of examples, as seen here: https://gist.github.com/skinnyjames/3734634e78309e1b218b90dbedb8fefa ⏎ ⏎ The issue I'm having is that the block finishes once the examples are declared, but not run (which makes

00:06 <FromGitter> ... sense) ⏎ So the browser shuts down before any examples have the chance to target it. ... [https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=612d72781179346966eeb77a]

00:07 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> if you want to stay within the stdlib features, you'd have to just move that method to within the `it` bocks

00:07 <FromGitter> <skinnyjames> ah, so I'd have to spin up a browser per example then?

00:08 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> hmm

00:13 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> might be able to use class vars within a like `before/after_all` hook

00:14 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> i.e. get started in the before hook and torn down in the after

00:14 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> kinda meh because it's super easy to bleed context between specs using that var :/

00:15 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> could also just use larger `it` blocks :shrug:

00:15 <watzon1> Another webdriver client? Are you aware of https://github.com/watzon/marionette?

00:15 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> cough https://www.cypress.io/ cough

00:15 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> :P

00:17 <FromGitter> <skinnyjames> This webdriver client aims to be more like watir

00:17 <FromGitter> <skinnyjames> supports regex, and nested locators

00:17 <FromGitter> <skinnyjames> I dig cypress though

00:17 <watzon1> Idk why I'm watzon1 here. I registered watzon on freenode and libera, but it says it couldn't use the desired nickname here.

00:18 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> *imposter*

02:06 <raz> you're not alone, blacksmoke had this problem 15 times :p

10:19 <hightower4> Hey let's say I have an existing method like this: https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/buka . Now I'd like to make this dependent on the annotation attached to the instance variable which is being deserialized using this function, so that in the end, this becomes possible: https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/bukb

10:20 <hightower4> Can you point me in the right direction how to begin with that?

10:33 <hightower4> Well I guess that's too broad of a question

12:53 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> you would need some way to reference the type/ivar within a macro to access the annotation

13:00 <hightower4> yeah, figured it out in the meantime, thanks

13:00 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> 👍

13:00 <hightower4> (needed to do it on a different level, and pass the annotation as argument to the final function)

13:00 <hightower4> (rather than accessing the annotation directly from that function)

13:01 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> gotcha

13:27 <hightower4> By the way, I've collected my Crystal wishlist here: https://github.com/crystallabs/crysterm/blob/master/CRYSTAL-WISHLIST.md

15:15 <FromGitter> <jfontan> Is Windows going to be officially supported in 1.2?

15:15 <FromGitter> <jfontan> I don't see anything about it in the milestone

15:19 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> not as part of 1.2 afaik

18:11 <watzon> Yay I have my nick now

18:11 <watzon> No more watzon1

18:12 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> grats ;P

18:13 <watzon> Now to get a bouncer set up again

18:13 <watzon> We should write one in Crystal ;)

22:54 <raz> man, mint is really cool

22:56 <raz> still wrapping my head around all the Maybe's and haskellisms but already starting to wish crystal had those types of enum's, too :P

23:00 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> Oh?

23:08 <raz> yup. i'm sure they have a sciency name but i don't know it. essentially you can have enum values with values. e.g. `enum SessionStatus { LoggedOut; LoggedIn(User) }`

23:08 <raz> meaning your enum can be "LoggedOut" or "LoggedIn with an instance of a User"

23:09 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> In crystal that would just be a union

23:10 <raz> hmmm kinda, i guess

23:10 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> With an alias as the name

23:11 <raz> yea i suppose you can also model it with classes/structs

23:12 <raz> but i found it kinda neat to do it "on the fly" like that

23:12 <FromGitter> <Blacksmoke16> yea it def has some abstractions to reduce the boilerplate at least

23:13 <raz> i assume most of it is lifted from haskell, but don't know enough of that to know for sure

23:14 <raz> but yea, the amount of boilerplate you don't have to write is ridiculous. i'm still expecting to bump into limitations at some point, so far it has been suspiciously smooth

23:15 <raz> mint-ui is a joy