Cucumber-like Matchers

[Deleted user]

QED could benefit from some type of document modifiers scripts that triggered actions according to matching text in the demo document. These could then be used in place of begin/end, setup/teardown hooks. For example, such a document might have:

when /new project/ do
   FileUtils.cp('fixture/project', tmpdir)
   Dir.chdir(tmpdir/'project')
end

Then when ever the phrase "new project" appeared in a description these actions would be taken prior to running the subsequent code. We can also have before/after versions, with occur before and after the subsequent code --though these would be more limited as they would only apply to one code section at a time.

Perhaps we could even further and make it easy to fully augment the demonstrations execution, for instance running bash shell code instead of ruby code on certain indented sections.

[Deleted user]

This has been implement such that a #When clause triggers a procedure if there is a match in a comment section. #Before and #After variations of this were decided against. #When is equivalent to #Before and one can use a secondary match to handle teardowns if needed.