Rspec with Rails 3

First of all, we will need to setup Rspec on Rails 3,

sudo gem install rspec

sudo gem install rspec-rails --pre

Then we include them in our gemfile,

gem 'rspec'

gem 'rspec-rails'

Then we will run the generator:install,

rails g rspec:install

which will provide us with all the files/directory that we need to use Rspec

For a more robust TDD/BDD, we could install autotest. This would assure that each time we edit the test file, the Rspec test will be conducted automatically without the need of us typing the command out.

gem install autotest

gem install autotest-fsevent

gem install autotest-growl (For some reason i still couldn't set it up to work with Growl for OSX)

Open the autotest file,

mate ~/.autotest

Add these 2 lines to the file

require "autotest/fsevent"

require "autotest/growl"

Kick it off with

autotest

If we are testing model, be sure to do

rake db:test:prepare

or Rspec will complain.

More information and documentation can be found at:-

http://rspec.info/

http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails

http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/01/12/rspec-2-and-rails-3/

http://ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest