testing rake tasks.

guess that should read specing rake tasks ;)

I wrote a little something about writing methods that define tests: http://trottercashion.com/2008/6/5/macro-tests

Which RSpec Matcher Should I Use

A small explanation of some of the matchers in RSpec.

Here are a few:

Why I don’t mind using RSpec.http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/articles/2008/01/29/why-i-dont-mind-using-rspec-in-fact-ive-come-to-love-it

Validating RSS Feeds with RSpec

RSpec Anti-pattern, Don’t set controller yourself

Macro Tests shows how to writing methods that define tests in rSpec can clean things up.

http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/ – All of it. :)

How to write macros in rspec: http://www.benmabey.com/2008/06/08/writing-macros-in-rspec/

Some posts about the story runner: http://www.benmabey.com/2008/05/19/imperative-vs-declarative-scenarios-in-user-stories/ http://www.benmabey.com/2008/05/10/slides-and-code-from-my-bddrspec-presentation/ http://www.benmabey.com/2008/02/04/rspec-plain-text-stories-webrat-chunky-bacon/

How to test C with rspec: http://www.benmabey.com/2007/09/09/bdd_your_c/ http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/02/04/unit-testing-c-and-c-with-ruby-and-rspec

Other good posts: http://evang.eli.st/blog/2008/5/14/refactoring-with-shared-example-groups http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/11/22/better-rails-testing-decoupling-observers

http://evang.eli.st has some good posts about the story runner too, but are slightly dated.

Also… This is a work in progress… But a co-worker and I have been creating a textmate bundle for the story runner. We have a lot of features we want to add but it is already quite handy:

http://github.com/bmabey/rspec-story-tmbundle/tree/master

Hi All

I wrote a tutorial on understanding RSpec stories, which you might find useful:

http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/understanding-rspec-stories-a-tutorial

Leave a comment if you have any questions. Thanks, Ben…

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