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Myron Marston and Andy Lindeman are RSpec’s new project leads 28 Nov 2012 | 10:16 pm
TL;DR Myron Marston is taking over leadership of the RSpec project, and will be the lead maintainer of the rspec-core, rspec-expectations, and rspec-mocks gems. Andy Lindeman is taking over as lead ...
rspec-2.12 is released 13 Nov 2012 | 09:37 am
rspec-2.12 is a minor release (per SemVer), which includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes. It is fully backward compatible with previous rspec-2 releases and is a recommended upgrade for all user...
Agile Testing and BDD eXchange 2012 in NYC 22 Sep 2012 | 08:04 pm
I’m excited to be presenting on Behavior-Driven Objects at the Agile Testing & BDD eXchange in NYC on Monday, October 1st (details below). From the conference website: One of the original ideas behin...
rspec-2.11 is released! 8 Jul 2012 | 06:00 am
rspec-2.11.0 is out and filled with a bunch of new features. Big thanks to all who contributed, especially Justin Ko, Andy Lindeman (the newest addition to the RSpec core team) and Myron Marston for t...
Spec smell: explicit use of subject 14 May 2012 | 02:13 pm
TL;DR Explicit use of the “subject” abstraction is a code smell, and should be refactored to use a more intention revealing name whenever possible. One liners rspec-core supports a one-liner syntax...
rspec-mocks and rspec-rails-2.10.1 are released! 5 May 2012 | 06:34 pm
These are patch releases recommended for anybody who has already upgraded to 2.10. rspec-mocks-2.10.1 full changelog Bug fixes fix regression of edge case behavior fixed failure of object.should_...
rspec-2.10 is released! 4 May 2012 | 01:29 pm
API Docs (RDoc) http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-core http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-expectations http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-mocks http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-rails Cucumber docs http://rel...
rspec-expectations-2.9.1 is released! 4 Apr 2012 | 07:18 am
This is a bug-fix only release, and is recommended for everybody using rspec-2.9. full changelog Bug fixes Provide a helpful message if the diff between two objects is empty. Fix bug diffing singl...
rspec-2.9.0 is released! 18 Mar 2012 | 11:10 am
rspec-2.9.0 is released wtih lots of bug fixes and a few minor feature improvements as well. Enjoy! rspec-core-2.9.0 / 2012-03-17 full changelog Enhancements Support for “X minutes X seconds” spec...
Validations are behavior, associations are structure 13 Feb 2012 | 12:53 pm
TL;DR: TDD is about specifying behavior, not structure. Validations are behavior, and should be specified. Associations are structure, and need not be. Disclaimer This is my personal viewpoint, t...
