We’re getting very close to a 2.0 release candidate, so if you’re not already using rspec-2 (with or without rails-3), now is the time to start. I need your feedback, so from here on in I’ll be sending out announcements and release notes for each beta release.

As for rspec-2 with rails-2, there are a few efforts underway to make that work, but that will be in the form of a separate gem and our priority is getting rspec-2 out the door.

Please report issues or submit pull requests (yes, pull requests are fine now that github has integrated them so well with issues) to the appropriate repos:

• http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues
• http://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/issues
• http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues
• http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues

Here are release notes for each gem in this beta release, drawn from the nascent History.md files in each project.

rspec-core-2.0.0.beta.22 / 2010-09-12

full changelog

• Enhancements

  • removed at_exit hook
  • CTRL-C stops the run (almost) immediately
    • first it cleans things up by running the appropriate after(:all) and after(:suite) hooks
    • then it reports on any examples that have already run
  • cleaned up rake task
    • generate correct task under variety of conditions
    • options are more consistent
    • deprecated redundant options
  • run ‘bundle exec autotest’ when Gemfile is present
  • support ERB in .rspec options files (Justin Ko)
  • depend on bundler for development tasks (Myron Marston)
  • add example_group_finished to formatters and reporter (Roman Chernyatchik)

• Bug fixes

  • support paths with spaces when using autotest (Andreas Neuhaus)
  • fix module_exec with ruby 1.8.6 (Myron Marston)
  • remove context method from top-level
    • was conflicting with irb, for example
  • errors in before(:all) are now reported correctly (Chad Humphries)

• Removals

  • removed -o —options-file command line option
    • use ./.rspec and ~/.rspec

rspec-expectations-2.0.0.beta.22 / 2010-09-12

full changelog

• Enhancements

  • diffing improvements
    • diff multiline strings
    • don’t diff single line strings
    • don’t diff numbers (silly)
    • diff regexp + multiline string

• Bug fixes

  • should[_not] change now handles boolean values correctly

rspec-mocks-2.0.0.beta.22 / 2010-09-12

full changelog

• Bug fixes
  • fixed regression that broke obj.stub_chain(:a, :b => :c)
  • fixed regression that broke obj.stub_chain(:a, :b) { :c }
  • respond_to? always returns true when using as_null_object

2.0.0.beta.22 / 2010-09-12

full changelog

• Enhancements

  • autotest mapping improvements (Andreas Neuhaus)

• Bug fixes

  • delegate flunk to assertion delegate