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== RSpec

RSpec is a framework for developing ruby applications using Behaviour Driven Development.

== Expectations

RSpec adds expectation methods to every object, with specific types of expectations
set on specific classes. For example ...

<code>
@message = "some message"
@message.should == "some message"
</code>

... will be available on every object, whereas ...

<code>
proc { @number = @number + 1 }.should_change{ @number }.by(1)
</code>

... will only be available for proc objects.

See Spec::Expectations for details on the different expectations you can set.

== Building the RSpec gem
rake gem
gem install pkg/rspec-0.x.x.gem (you may have to sudo)

== Running the specs ==
In order to run RSpec's full suite of specs (rake pre_commit) you must install the following gems:

* rake          # Runs the build script
* rcov          # Verifies that the code is 100% covered by specs
* webgen        # Generates the static HTML website
* RedCloth      # Required by webgen
* syntax        # Required by our own custom webgen extension to highlight ruby code
* diff-lcs      # Required if you use the --diff switch
* win32console  # Required by the --colour switch if you're on Windows
* meta_project  # Required in order to make releases at RubyForge
* heckle        # Required if you use the --heckle switch

Note that RSpec itself - once built - doesn't have any dependencies outside the Ruby core 
and stdlib - with a few exceptions:

* The spec command line uses diff-lcs when --diff is specified.
* The spec command line uses heckle when --heckle is specified.
* The Spec::Rake::SpecTask needs RCov if RCov is enabled in the task.
* RSpec on Rails needs the ZenTest gem to be installed (and Rails and its dependencies of course)

See http://rspec.rubyforge.org for further documentation.

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
rspec-0.7.5.1	README
rspec-0.7.5	README