Blog Archive 2012 Myron Marston and Andy Lindeman are RSpec’s new project leads Nov 28 2012 rspec-2.12 is released Nov 12 2012 Agile Testing and BDD eXchange 2012 in NYC Sep 22 2012 rspec-2.11 is released! Jul 07 2012 Spec smell: explicit use of subject May 13 2012 rspec-mocks and rspec-rails-2.10.1 are released! May 05 2012 rspec-2.10 is released! May 03 2012 rspec-expectations-2.9.1 is released! Apr 03 2012 rspec-2.9.0 is released! Mar 17 2012 Validations are behavior, associations are structure Feb 12 2012 rspec-rails-2.8.1 is released Jan 04 2012 RSpec-2.8 is released! Jan 04 2012 2011 rspec-2.8.0.rc1 is released Nov 06 2011 rspec-core 2.7.1 is released! Oct 20 2011 rspec-2.7.0 is released! Oct 16 2011 Avoid stubbing methods invoked by a framework Sep 22 2011 Stop typing “bundle exec” Jul 18 2011 rspec-core-2.6.4 is released! Jun 06 2011 rake 0.9 and gem version constraints May 28 2011 rspec-rails-2.6.1 is released! May 25 2011 rspec-core-2.6.3 is released! May 24 2011 rspec-rails-2.6.1.beta1 is released! May 22 2011 rspec-core-2.6.1 is released! May 19 2011 rspec-2.6.0 is released May 12 2011 rspec-2.6.0.rc6 is released! May 06 2011 rspec-2.6.0.rc4 is released! May 01 2011 rspec-2.6.0.rc3 is released! Apr 30 2011 rspec-2.6.0.rc2 is released! Apr 18 2011 rspec-1.3.2 and rspec-rails-1.3.4 are released! Apr 11 2011 rspec-core-2.5.1 is released! Feb 06 2011 rspec-2.5.0 is released! Feb 06 2011 rspec-rails-2.4.1 is released! Jan 03 2011 rspec-2.4.0 is released! Jan 02 2011 2010 RSpec 2 Documentation Dec 22 2010 rspec-rails-2.3.1 is released! Dec 16 2010 rspec-core-2.3.1 is released! Dec 16 2010 rspec-2.3.0 is released! Dec 12 2010 rspec-rails-2.2.1 is released Dec 01 2010 rspec-core-2.2.1 is released! Nov 29 2010 rspec-2.2 is released! Nov 28 2010 RubyConf 2010 Presentations Nov 13 2010 Specifying mixins with shared example groups in RSpec-2 Nov 07 2010 rspec-2.1 is released Nov 07 2010 rspec-2.0.1 is released! Oct 18 2010 rspec-rails-2.0.1 is released! Oct 15 2010 RSpec-2.0.0 is released! Oct 10 2010 rspec-1.3.1 / rspec-rails-1.3.3 are released Oct 09 2010 RSpec-2.0.0.rc is released! Oct 04 2010 RSpec-2.0.0.beta.22 is released! Sep 12 2010 The RSpec Book has entered the production process! Jul 29 2010 The RSpec Book - Beta 14 Jul 23 2010 rspec-rails-2 generators and rake tasks - part II Jul 11 2010 rspec-rails-2 generators and rake tasks Jul 11 2010 RSpec-2 Documentation Jul 01 2010 View isolation in rspec-rails-2 Jun 27 2010 Why you want a topic branch when contributing to git-hosted projects Jun 24 2010 Filtering examples in rspec-2 Jun 14 2010 rspec-2 and autotest Mar 15 2010 Rspec 2.0 in the works Jan 24 2010 Rspec 2 and Rails 3 Jan 11 2010 Welcome Chad Humphries Jan 11 2010 2009 get off (the couch) with me Sep 25 2009 The RSpec Book – Beta 10 and Progress Report Sep 23 2009 let it be @-less Sep 14 2009 rspec-1.2.9.rc1 and rspec-rails-1.2.9.rc1 have been released Sep 14 2009 Windy City Rails Jul 18 2009 The RSpec Book: Beta 8.0 Jul 18 2009 The RSpec Book: Beta 6.0 Jun 16 2009 Upgrading to ZenTest 4.1.0 Jun 07 2009 The RSpec Book: Beta 5.0 May 18 2009 The RSpec Book: Beta 4.0 Apr 13 2009 The RSpec Book: Beta 3.0 Mar 30 2009 rspec-1.2, rspec-rails-1.2 (and rails-2.3) Mar 16 2009 rspec/rspec-rails/ruby-1.9 Mar 14 2009 The RSpec Book - Beta 2.0 Feb 24 2009 Feedback on The RSpec Book (beta) Feb 13 2009 RSpec works with test/unit Feb 02 2009 The RSpec Book is now in beta Jan 29 2009 rspec-1.1.12 is released Jan 13 2009 rspec-1.1.12 release candidate Jan 04 2009 2008 A case against a case against mocking and stubbing Dec 11 2008 cucumbers creating cucumbers Oct 13 2008 Windy City Rails Conf Sep 23 2008 Cucumber Sep 22 2008 How I got started programming Jul 01 2008 new controller examples Jul 01 2008 Slides from RailsConf Jun 16 2008 Thoughts on the Dance-Off Jun 07 2008 RSpec waving ‘bye bye’ to implicit module inclusion May 29 2008 RSpec-1.1.4 May 27 2008 The “BDD Story Template” Apr 28 2008 RSpec at github Apr 09 2008 Welcome Pat Maddox Apr 04 2008 ETEC Slides Apr 01 2008 limiting scope of autotest Mar 05 2008 Presenting at ETEC Feb 04 2008 RSpec-1.1.3 and ZenTest-3.9.1 Feb 04 2008 Presenting at RailsConf 2008 Jan 26 2008 RSpec: new –pattern option Jan 20 2008 RSpec-1.1.2 and ZenTest-3.8.0 Jan 15 2008 Presenting at QCon London Jan 09 2008 Advanced Rails Recipes Jan 04 2008 2007 RSpec 1.1 Dec 14 2007 RubyConf 2007 Talk Dec 07 2007 Nested Example Groups Nov 29 2007 before_action/after_action Nov 06 2007 RubyConf slides Nov 05 2007 Lessons in Spec’ing Oct 26 2007 Plain Text Stories: Part III Oct 25 2007 Plain Text Stories on Rails Oct 22 2007 Story Runner in Plain English Oct 21 2007 Simple Matchers made Simple Sep 08 2007 159 Aug 17 2007 rSpec Basics Peep Code is Out Jul 08 2007 template.expects_render Jun 28 2007 pending(“insert reason here”) Jun 23 2007 Real Confusion over Mock Concepts Jun 15 2007 Speaking at The Rails Edge Jun 06 2007 RSpec 1.0 - belated thanks Jun 04 2007 oxymoron: testing behaviour of abstractions Jun 03 2007 web_spec: ghost of spec:ui past May 31 2007 rspec and autotest May 29 2007 raise_controller_errors May 26 2007 an introduction to RSpec - Part I May 14 2007 don’t let :name_prefix result in the name of an existing model May 01 2007 RSpec-0.9 is finally released May 01 2007 RSpec-0.9.1 and Autotest (ZenTest-3.5.2) May 01 2007 predicate_matchers Apr 30 2007 rspec 0.9 - plug in any mock framework Apr 27 2007 Inferred Controllers and Helpers in Spec::Rails Apr 04 2007 RSpec plays nice with others Apr 01 2007 Describe it with RSpec Mar 10 2007 lesson learned - don’t fork a moving target Mar 02 2007 Spec::Expectations and Test::Unit::TestCase, together again at last Mar 01 2007 RSpec-0.8.0 Released Feb 28 2007 matchers doing double duty Feb 25 2007 generated spec names keep specs DRYer Feb 21 2007 custom expectation matchers Feb 18 2007 expectation matchers Feb 18 2007 rspec-exts Feb 16 2007 expectations and assertions, together again at last Jan 31 2007 view specs are about to get a whole lot easier Jan 20 2007 2006 clean out init.rb in rspec_on_rails plugin Dec 22 2006 Fighting the Urge to Ask Nov 27 2006 Cohesive Models Nov 15 2006 tutorial - rspec: stubs and mocks Nov 09 2006 BDD - specs and tests, together again at last Nov 06 2006 tutorial - driving view behaviour with ‘spec/rails’ Nov 06 2006