On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Pablo L. de Miranda wrote: >> @Fernando - So what material you recommend to start a study in rSpec? >> > > This might be heresy, but I suggest that you start with Cucumber and > simply use RSpec matcher syntax in your step definitions. Once you > have the hang of how to express expectations in the step definitions, > then move on to using RSpec on its own; providing that you still want > to. > > I really did not get the hang of any of this, TDD, BDD, Rails or Ruby > until I latched on to Cucumber and started -- very, very poorly mind you > -- to discover how to express behaviour and, more importantly, what > behaviour to express. It was, for me, a tumultuous journey and one that > I am still traveling. > > I am now at the point where, simply by expressing one little bit of > desired bwhaviour in a cucumber scenario, I uncovered a requirement to > leave Rails for a bit and implement a set of SQL triggers. This would > have been discovered at some point anyway, but I rather suspect that > without BDD the implementation would have been written first in Ruby for > ActiveRecord only to be discarded sometime later when the need for a > trigger became manifest. > > Peepcode is good, I have watched and learned lots there. Just recall > that the episodes go far back in time insofar as Rails and RSpec are > concerned. These two products have undergone extensive change since > many of the episodes were recorded.
Thanks for sharing James. I know when you first joined the list there were a few frustrating moments, and it's really good to hear about where you've come and how you've gotten there. This is helpful to both newbs and seasoned BDDers alike, -- Zach Dennis http://www.continuousthinking.com http://www.mutuallyhuman.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
