On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Ben Mabey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Harper wrote: >> I was getting a little tired of adding 2 plugins every time I create a >> new rails project, so I just built an rspec-rails gemspec, and it >> works perfectly well. Does anybody know why there isn't a public >> rspec-rails gem? >> >> Tim >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > Hey Tim, > I actually added a 'gem' task to the rspec-rails project a while ago.. > It was soon deprecated in favor of using Hoe however. Either way though > rspec-rails on github allows you to build the gem yourself using rake > and install it locally. I think the reason for not making it an > official gem is that it really meant to be a rails plugin and the fact > that it is usually a good idea to freeze both rspec and rspec-rails in > your app to avoid dependency problems between teams and projects. I > suppose with the new rails gem management feature those reasons are > somewhat mitigated... I think it would be a good idea to make the > rspec-rails available as a gem as well because I have needed it as a gem > in the past for merb apps. (You can reuse some of the AR specific > helpers in other non-rails AR projects.) So +1 on making it a public > gem (at least just on github.)
We are definitely planning to release an rspec-rails gem, but not until we do a release :) With Rails-2.2.0 around the corner, we'll release shortly after that (once we're able to resolve any incompatibilities with edge rails). Cheers, David > > -Ben > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
