rspec-2.2 is released!
November 28th, 2010
rspec-core-2.2.0
Deprecations/changes
- –debug/-d on command line is deprecated and now has no effect
- win32console is now ignored; Windows users must use ANSICON for color support (Bosko Ivanisevic)
Enhancements
- Raise exception with helpful message when rspec-1 is loaded alongside rspec-2 (Justin Ko)
- debugger statements just work as long as ruby-debug is installed
- otherwise you get warned, but not fired
- Expose example.metadata in around hooks
- Performance improvments (see Upgrade.markdown)
Bug fixes
- Make sure –fail-fast makes it across drb
- Pass -Ilib:spec to rcov
rspec-mocks-2.2.0
Enhancements
- Added “rspec/mocks/standalone” for exploring the rspec-mocks in irb.
Bug fix
- Eliminate warning on splat args without parens (Gioele Barabucci)
- Fix bug where obj.should_receive(:foo).with(stub.as_null_object) would
pass with a false positive.
rspec-rails-2.2.0
Enhancements
- Added stub_template in view specs
Bug fixes
- Properly include helpers in views (Jonathan del Strother)
- Fix bug in which method missing led to a stack overflow
- Fix stack overflow in request specs with open_session
- Fix stack overflow in any spec when method_missing was invoked
- Add gem dependency on rails ~> 3.0.0 (ensures bundler won’t install rspec-rails-2 with rails-2 apps).


December 1st, 2010 at 9:33 am
A couple of data points on the performance improvements from 2.0/2.1 to 2.2:
One project: a very fast extension written in C, with no long-running examples; time to execute 724 examples dropped from about 0.3 seconds to 0.23 seconds.
Another project: a Rails app with lots of relatively long-running examples; time to execute 4.3k examples dropped from somewhat over 10 minutes down to just under 6 minutes.