RSpec 1.1.0

Created 12/14/2007, updated 5 weeks ago1 minute read

The release notes belie the scope of the changes in this RSpec release. It’s been a long time, and this is a huge release with, for me, three big things:

the "Story Runner"
nested example groups
total and seamless interoperability with Test::Unit

David Chelimsky’s announcement posted to the mailing list gives a much clearer idea of the scope of the changes.

Programming in Ruby is fun but the truth is I like programming in Objective-C more (especially now that we’re talking about Objective-C 2.0). But I like testing with Ruby and RSpec more. I wish this kind of thing were possible in Objective-C, but I fear that the joys of autotest will never be available in a compiled language. You can fake it and come close with some kind of continuous integration tests running in the background, but no matter how much you optimize it you’re never going to have the instant feedback that you get with Ruby/RSpec/autotest.

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