On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Stephen Eley <sfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg > > <vanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Looking around outside of the book, reading reviews of RSpec on the web > >> seems tricky. Most reviews seem very dated, and as a result are > misleading. > >> Is this an accurate assessment? > > > > I don't think so. The core syntax and sensibilities of RSpec haven't > > changed in any disruptive way. It's added new features, like those > > contexts and such, but there's no compulsion to use them. And to me > > they don't have much impact on the fundamental _flavor_ of RSpec. > > > > Well it depends on how far back you go, and how old those reviews are. > > When RSpec first appeared the syntax was a bit different, and it added > a lot of methods to Kernel/Object. Some of the folks who looked at it > in it's early days had a negative reaction to that. > > Some folks blogged about that reaction back then. I kept my powder > dry IIRC. About a year later, after seeing David C's presentation at > RubyConf 2007, and talking to him I decided to give it another look. I > wrote this article: > > > http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2008/01/29/why-i-dont-mind-using-rspec-in-fact-ive-come-to-love-it > > And I haven't looked back since. > > I know that some well known Ruby/Rails personalities and companies > continued to disdain RSpec after the initial impression, For example > here's the article by my friend Rob Sanheim, which prompted me to > write that article. > > http://robsanheim.com/2008/01/25/why-i-use-testspec-over-rspec/ > (It seems to be down right now, try googling for sanheim rspec and > check the cached version) > > But that seems to be changing. > > Rob wrote this more recently: > > > http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2009/3/26/introducing-micronaut-a-lightweight-bdd-framework > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > Thanks. That's what I'm trying to parse- a lot of people are inspired to blog when something is new, but less so later on, so there is a lot of 2007/early 2008 posts from basic google searches. The evolution of RSpec is fascinating- very organic and collaborative. Thanks, Nick
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