Hey Everyone, I've been reading the rspec book, and I'm trying to tie everything together, but I'm a little confused. Keep in mind this is my first introduction to TDD/BDD. When it came to testing my rails app I jumped into learning rspec before I ever tried to using any of the built in test:unit stuff. I'm probably a different breed because of this, most everyone else has probably been using the stuff built into rails before ever attempting rspec or cucumber. I didn't see the need to learn something that everyone is going away from, but if it's a necessary evil please let me know.
I am to the chapter talking about writing view specs, this chapter is preceded by a chapter that talks about using webrat matchers to help you test views, and uses cucumber step definitions. I'm having a problem understanding when I should use cucumber and when I should use rspec. If I start my app coding by "spec"ing my views then do I really need to use cucumber at all? Can someone clarify in "simple" terms the relationship between rspec and cucumber. I feel I understand them independently, but I'm confused on how and when I choose to use them together. I have read through the book pretty thoroughly to this point and feel I have absorbed everything there is to absorb, but my mind isn't getting this correlation. When going through the codebreaker example it had me run my cucumber stuff separate from my rspec stuff. Looking back it seems the only reason I used both was to develop a more complete test, but in fact I could use one over the other if I wanted to? That statement makes sense "to me", but I know it's probably wrong. I guess while I'm asking questions, I'll ask one more... If I want to follow the BDD mantra to the tee, then I would spec all of my views first, and use this as my starting place for adding every subsequent test after that right? After the views have been "spec"ed and are re-factored in the "Green" then I would re-factor again by adding controller methods or model information to get rid of my stub code. Am I understanding that correctly? Any information helps me learn. Thanks! Chris _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
