"Minimalist acceptance testing on top of RSpec"

"After a year using RSpec, I’m happy to share “(My) RSpec Best Practices and Tips”. Let’s make your specs easier to maintain, less verbose, more structured and covering more cases!"

"Are you familiar with RSpec, new to Sinatra, and can’t get the two to cooperate? This article maybe of use to you. Alternatively, if you’re like me and you’re simply new to this universe all together, this article can certainly be of use."

"I left off last night moving into the guts of the application. The plan was to start BDDing with RSpec. It occurred to me, however, that I had no idea how to do it. Happily, Sinatra's testing documentation includes RSpec information."

"Variation: Saboteur
A Test Stub that is used to inject invalid indirect inputs into the SUT is often called a "Saboteur" because its purpose is to derail whatever the SUT is trying to do so we can see how the SUT copes with these circumstances. The "derailment" can be caused by returning unexpected values or objects, or it can be caused by raising an exception or causing a runtime error. Each test may either be a Simple Success Test or an Expected Exception Test (see Test Method) depending on how the SUT is expected to behave in response to the indirect input."

"RR (Double Ruby) is a test double framework that features a rich selection of double techniques and a terse syntax."

"RSpec, Cucumber, Webrat, RCov and Autotest are a powerful combination of tools for testing your Rails app. Unfortunately getting them to all work nicely together can be a bit of challenge. I recently configured a development environment from scratch on OS X 10.5 Leopard and kept track of all of the little details."

Installation path works fine with PeepCode graphics and ~/.autotest script as well.

Love the example