On 27 Mar 2011, at 03:43, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:

> Hi David and fellows,
> 
> I know this subject has already been discussed here and there are already 
> some attempts to support the given-when-then-and syntax in Rspec, like the 
> links below:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/206969
> https://github.com/jimweirich/rspec-given
> 
> First, I don't understand the reason to adopt the capital method names 
> Given/When/Then/And instead of given/when/then/and. Then, I don't think we 
> can call this some real support for that syntax because "example" is not 
> meant to be executed in any special order in Rspec nor it can be defined that 
> any additional "then/and" should be aborted if a prior expectation wasn't 
> met. And both solutions seem to work by simple aliasing "example" and 
> "describe".
> 
> I never used Cucumber because I find that working with it is cumbersome for 
> most cases.
> 
> I've been working mostly with Grails on my daily job for about 2 years now 
> since I moved to my current job. I wanted something like Rspec for Groovy and 
> Grails and while searching for some alternative, I found EasyB:
> 
> http://www.easyb.org/
> 
> Actually I liked the story syntax they provide as well as the reports and I 
> found it would be useful for Rspec to incorporate that style too:
> 
> http://www.easyb.org/howtos.html
> 
> What do you think?

Why not just use Cucumber?

> 
> Best regards!
> 
> Rodrigo.
> 
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cheers,
Matt

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