The Ruby Reflector

After several years at the helm, David Chelimsky is handing over the reins to Myron Marston and Andy Lindeman for RSpec and rspec-rails respectively. Thanks for all your hard work, David.

Upgrading to Rails 4: A Forthcoming Book (in Beta)

Andy Lindeman of the RSpec core team is working on a new book designed to bring you up to speed with Rails 4. It's in beta so you can support him now, if you like.

Reading

Making Your Ruby Fly

Andrei Lisnic…

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Ruby, RubyGems, Andy Lindeman
• A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1008
• Practicing Ruby: Issue #17: Interesting Ruby Hacker-Writers
• Riding Rails - home: Rails Has Great Documentation
• Transcending Frontiers: Guest Series: Peter Cooper - Capybara-WebKit: Bringing WebKit to your integration tests
• Viget.com Blogs: Rails Admin Interface Generators
• A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: Introducing the Rails API Project

Myron Marston is taking over leadership of the RSpec project, and will be the lead maintainer of the rspec-core, rspec-expectations, and rspec-mocks gems.

Andy Lindeman is taking over as lead maintainer of the rspec-rails gem.

Myron Marston is RSpec's new project lead

Myron Marston has been contributing to RSpec since the ramp up to the 2.0 release in 2010, and joined the core team in early 2011. In addition to solid contributions to the code base, Myron has taken responsibility …

• Topics: RSpec, Andy Lindeman, Ruby on Rails, Steven Baker, TDD
• Ruby Inside: The Last Week in Ruby: A Great Ruby Shirt, RSpec Team Changes and a Sneaky Segfault Trick
• Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Nominate Your Ruby Heroes, Include/Extend, Ruby on Netbeans, Jekyll-Bootstrap, and more
• the evolving ultrasaurus: on choosing RSpec as a test framework
• The Pug Automatic: Tests on demand using Vimux and Turbux with Spork and Guard
• McKinney Station: test/spec docs for Rails
• casperfabricius.com: Bundler and Rails 3 environments

…shouldn't override. Instead, define ExampleGroup#parent_groups . ( Myron Marston)

Limit monkey patching of shared example/context declaration methods ( shared_examples_for , etc.) to just the objects that need it rather than every object in the system ( Myron Marston).

Fix Metadata#fetch to support computed values ( Sam Goldman).

Named subject can now be referred to from within subject block in a nested group (tomykaira).

Fix fail_fast so that it properly exits when an …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Andy Lindeman, Class, Time, RSpec
• giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps
• Katz Got Your Tongue?: Using >= Considered Harmful (or, What's Wrong With >=)
• Opscode Blog: Ohai 6.14.0 released
• Smarticus: Semantic Versioning

It's not out yet but Myron Marston gives us a look at a new feature coming to the forthcoming RSpec 2.11: the ability to stub constants.

Adding SMS Capabilities to Your Rails App With Twilio

Vim for Ruby on Rails (and A Sexy Theme!)

Last week's link to using Sublime Text 2 was popular but this week's turn is Vim! Aston J aims to show off why Vim is a good choice for Rails development along with a bevy of commands.

9 FactoryGirl Tips…

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Internet Relay Chat, Disney, Engineer, OneLogin
• Engine Yard Developer Blog: Come See Us in May!
• Blue Box Group: News: 2 Free Tickets to SunnyConf - September 25th!
• a Freelance Web Developer: Lightning Talk about the OneOfZombies project
• Joseph Wilk: Testing Outside of the Ruby World
• Article RSS Feed: May 2010 Meeting
• Luke Melia: GoRuCo 2008

…hook error. Previously, the error was silenced and the user got no feedback about what happened. ( Myron Marston)

--require and -I are merged among different configuration sources ( Andy Lindeman)

Delegate to mocha methods instead of aliasing them in mocha adapter.

rspec-expectations-2.11.0

full changelog

Enhancements

Expand expect syntax so that it supports expections on bare values in addition to blocks ( Myron Marston).

Add configuration options to control available …

• Topics: API, BasicObject, Daniel Doubrovkine, Ruby on Rails,  Article.new
• Ruby Inside: A Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for July 2012 in 97 Links
• Ruby Inside: VCR: A Recorder For All Your Tests' HTTP Interactions

Myron Marston shows off a new syntax for expectations in RSpec. It looks like "expect(foo).to eq(bar)" versus the more typical "foo.should eq(bar)". What's the motivation? Learn more here.

Removing config.threadsafe! from Rails

Core Rails developer Aaron ' tenderlove' Patterson looks at why the 'config.threadsafe!' directive can be removed from Rails and demonstrates the issues involved.

Rails Pull Request: Enable threadsafe! …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Ruby Console, Mac OS X, JavaScript, PostgreSQL
• Tea-Driven Development: Hexagonal Rails: Objects, Values and Hexagons
• Robby on Rails: Announcing the 2012 Rails Hosting Survery
• A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: The App Scrolls for creating and transforming Rails apps
• JJinuxLand: Using Ruby on Rails and YouTube for Education
• O'Reilly Media: Ruby and Rails: The Rails View
• Segment7: Mechanics of Programming

Myron Marston draws attention to Sinatra's 'halt' method which you can use to immediate stop a request within a filter or route, and explains why he likes it for handling exceptions in Sinatra apps.

Replace Your Test Helpers with a Reusable API

Eric Hodel makes an interesting argument that instead of leaning on test helper files all of the time, perhaps there are common bits of functionality you can bake into your library or app's own APIs.

assert_nothing_tested.. …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Ruby Rogues, Jekyll, Ruby Support
• Envy Labs: Looking for an Intern
• Nikos D.: Breadcrumbs on Rails
• giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Thank you
• Trevor Turk: Links for 12-9-2011
• A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #774
• Simone Carletti's Blog: Using Sprockets without a Rails/Rack project

Improved failure message for the have_xxx matcher ( Myron Marston)

HaveMatcher supports count ( Matthew Bellantoni)

Change matcher dups Enumerable before the action, supporting custom Enumerable types like CollectionProxy in Rails ( David Chelimsky)

Bug fixes

Fix typo in have(n).xyz documentation ( Jean Boussier)

fix safe_sort for ruby 1.9.2 ( Kernel now defines <=> for Object) ( Peter van Hardenberg)

rspec-mocks-2.7.0

full changelog

• Topics: David Chelimsky, Bundler, RSpec, matcher, Justin Ko
• OnRails.org: RailsConf 2010 - Thank You!
• Obie Fernandez: The Dark Side Beckons?
• Talk Like A Duck: When I Say No...

rspec-core-2.6.0

full changelog

Enhancements

shared context ( Damian Nurzynski)

extend groups matching specific metadata with:

method definitions

subject declarations

let/let! declarations

etc (anything you can do in a group)

its([:key]) works for any subject with #[]. ( Peter Jaros)

treat symbols as metadata keys with true values ( Myron Marston)

Print a deprecation warning when you configure RSpec after defining an example. All configuration should happen before any examples are defined. ( Myron Marston)

• Topics: Andy Lindeman, RSpec, TestCase, DRb, RCov
• Ruby Inside: VCR: A Recorder For All Your Tests' HTTP Interactions

treat symbols as metadata keys with true values ( Myron Marston)

Print a deprecation warning when you configure RSpec after defining an example. All configuration should happen before any examples are defined. ( Myron Marston)

Pass the exit status of a DRb run to the invoking process. This causes specs run via DRb to not just return true or false. ( Ilkka Laukkanen)

Refactoring of ConfigurationOptions#parse options ( Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)

Report excluded filters in runner …

• Topics: RSpec, Andy Lindeman, Enhancments, TestCase, RCov
• Ruby Inside: VCR: A Recorder For All Your Tests' HTTP Interactions