describe "Array literals" do it "[] accepts a literal hash without curly braces as its last parameter" do ["foo", "bar" => :baz].should == ["foo", {"bar" => :baz}] [1, 2, 3 => 6, 4 => 24].should == [1, 2, {3 => 6, 4 => 24}] end end describe "The unpacking splat operator (*)" do it "when applied to a non-Array value attempts to coerce it to Array if the object respond_to?(:to_a)" do obj = mock("pseudo-array") obj.should_receive(:to_a).and_return([2, 3, 4]) [1, *obj].should == [1, 2, 3, 4] end it "when applied to a non-Array value uses it unchanged if it does not respond_to?(:to_a)" do obj = Object.new obj.should_not respond_to(:to_a) [1, *obj].should == [1, obj] end it "can be used before other non-splat elements" do a = [1, 2] [0, *a, 3].should == [0, 1, 2, 3] end it "can be used multiple times in the same containing array" do a = [1, 2] b = [1, 0] [*a, 3, *a, *b].should == [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 0] end end