Presenting at ETEC 4

Posted by David Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:47:12 GMT

I’m going to be presenting at ETEC on RSpec’s Story Runner. This will be more or less the same talk I’m presenting at RailsConf in May, except that it’s in March and on the other coast.

See you in Philly!

RSpec-1.1.3 and ZenTest-3.9.1 6

Posted by David Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:04:57 GMT

ZenTest’s last two releases are not compatible with previous versions of RSpec. This is good news because Autotest now exposes better extension points for subclasses like those that ship with RSpec. Before, RSpec had to monkey patch Autotest to control the mappings of specs to files to run, and the list of files/directories to ignore. Now RSpec gets to use public methods (instead of instance variables) and documented hooks to do it’s work.

In the long run, this will keep things more flexible for both RSpec and ZenTest. In the short run, the catch for you is that you have to use compatible versions of RSpec and ZenTest. They are:

RSpec versionZenTest version
<= 1.1.1<= 3.7.x
1.1.23.8.x
1.1.33.9.x