So far our convention has been
describe :method_name do
...
end
But this has some obvious drawback like separation of instance/class methods.
I hope we can now all agree on the unambiguous convention Mr Heinrich found in a great rspec presentation:
- use “description” for non-methods
- use pound “#method” for instance methods
- use dot “.method” for class methods
This also makes prettier specdoc output 🙂
Michael Grosser, the Blog 
Reblogged this on Learning and commented:
Rspec Description block for methods and non-methods
I don’t understand the use of `.`. It’s ambiguous. Since the inception of RDoc, `::` has been used to denote a class method and `#` has been used to denote an instance method. Why not follow these pre-existing and ubiquitous standards in the testing suite?
Yes that would be totally valid and maybe more consistent. I mostly because I hate using “::” for static method calls and don’t want to further encourage it or expose any user to it 🙂