Is it possible for RSpec to expect change in two tables?

Question

RSpec expect change:

it \"should increment the count\" do
  expect{Foo.bar}.to change{Counter.count}.by 1
end

Is there a way to expect chan

Answer 1

After none of the proposed solutions proved to actually work, I accomplished this by adding a change_multiple matcher. This will only work for RSpec 3, and not 2.*

module RSpec
  module Matchers
    def change_multiple(receiver=nil, message=nil, &block)
      BuiltIn::ChangeMultiple.new(receiver, message, &block)
    end
    alias_matcher :a_block_changing_multiple,  :change_multiple
    alias_matcher :changing_multiple,          :change_multiple

    module BuiltIn
      class ChangeMultiple < Change
        private

          def initialize(receiver=nil, message=nil, &block)
            @change_details = ChangeMultipleDetails.new(receiver, message, &block)
          end
      end
      class ChangeMultipleDetails < ChangeDetails
        def actual_delta
          @actual_after = [@actual_after].flatten
          @actual_before = [@actual_before].flatten
          @actual_after.map.with_index{|v, i| v - @actual_before[i]}
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

example of usage:

it "expects multiple changes despite hordes of cargo cultists chanting aphorisms" do
  a = "." * 4
  b = "." * 10
  times_called = 0
  expect {
    times_called += 1
    a += ".."
    b += "-----"
  }.to change_multiple{[a.length, b.length]}.by([2,5])
  expect(times_called).to eq(1)
end

Making by_at_least and by_at_most work for change_multiple would require some additional work.