[Rspec-devel] [ANN] RSpec 0.5.5 on Rails

[aslak hellesoy]

On 6/7/06, James Hughes <hughes.james at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/6/06, aslak hellesoy <aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just released RSpec 0.5.5. There are only very minor changes to the
> > RSpec core, but the big news is Rails support!
>
> > The Rails support is based on Lachie Cox' contribution from last week
> > - it was a Rails plugin. I have now restructured it and packaged it as
> > a Rubygem instead (separate from the core Rspec gem).
>
> I thought I'd take this opportunity to introduce myself to the list by
> noting that I just created my first project with the gem, and it
> worked flawlessly.

I suppose you mean the rspec_generator gem.
I'm glad it's working for you!

> I've been using Lachie's plugin for the last few
> weeks (at work even!) and it's good to have the last few pieces of
> infrastucture that the gem provides.
>
> A question, does anyone have a notion of what it would take to get
> this working with Zentest (specifically the piece of Zentest that I
> use most, autotest)?
>

Looking at ZenTest's Autotest - it looks like the Autotest class and
RailsAutotest classes can be extended/modified so that it looks for
(and executes) RSpec specs rather than Test::Unit tests.

If we (RSpec team) do it, it will probably be a lot of duplication - I
think it would be better if support for RSpec was implemented in
ZenTest itself. -Or at least that ZenTest was refactored to support
commandline-specified plugins (and we could write the RSpec plugin for
it)

I have CC'ed Ryan Davis - Eric Hodel is already on this list (the ZenTest guys)

Aslak

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