Tim Harper wrote: > I was getting a little tired of adding 2 plugins every time I create a > new rails project, so I just built an rspec-rails gemspec, and it > works perfectly well. Does anybody know why there isn't a public > rspec-rails gem? > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
Hey Tim, I actually added a 'gem' task to the rspec-rails project a while ago.. It was soon deprecated in favor of using Hoe however. Either way though rspec-rails on github allows you to build the gem yourself using rake and install it locally. I think the reason for not making it an official gem is that it really meant to be a rails plugin and the fact that it is usually a good idea to freeze both rspec and rspec-rails in your app to avoid dependency problems between teams and projects. I suppose with the new rails gem management feature those reasons are somewhat mitigated... I think it would be a good idea to make the rspec-rails available as a gem as well because I have needed it as a gem in the past for merb apps. (You can reuse some of the AR specific helpers in other non-rails AR projects.) So +1 on making it a public gem (at least just on github.) -Ben _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
