On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Stephen Eley <sfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg > <vanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Looking around outside of the book, reading reviews of RSpec on the web >> seems tricky. Most reviews seem very dated, and as a result are misleading. >> Is this an accurate assessment? > > I don't think so. The core syntax and sensibilities of RSpec haven't > changed in any disruptive way. It's added new features, like those > contexts and such, but there's no compulsion to use them. And to me > they don't have much impact on the fundamental _flavor_ of RSpec. >
Well it depends on how far back you go, and how old those reviews are. When RSpec first appeared the syntax was a bit different, and it added a lot of methods to Kernel/Object. Some of the folks who looked at it in it's early days had a negative reaction to that. Some folks blogged about that reaction back then. I kept my powder dry IIRC. About a year later, after seeing David C's presentation at RubyConf 2007, and talking to him I decided to give it another look. I wrote this article: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2008/01/29/why-i-dont-mind-using-rspec-in-fact-ive-come-to-love-it And I haven't looked back since. I know that some well known Ruby/Rails personalities and companies continued to disdain RSpec after the initial impression, For example here's the article by my friend Rob Sanheim, which prompted me to write that article. http://robsanheim.com/2008/01/25/why-i-use-testspec-over-rspec/ (It seems to be down right now, try googling for sanheim rspec and check the cached version) But that seems to be changing. Rob wrote this more recently: http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2009/3/26/introducing-micronaut-a-lightweight-bdd-framework -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
