From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T19:50:41+09:00
Subject: Re: I don't like specs, should I change my point of view ?

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On 2008.11.18., at 10:56, Zouplaz wrote:

> Hello, I'm not trolling. I don't like specs (RSpec) : everytime I  
> had a look to specs I felt it was only syntaxic sugar driven by a  
> big machinery and I continued to write classic unit tests.
>
> But I've seen more and more projects using rspec - So I consider  
> beeing wrong about this software.
>
> Do you have any link to articles that advocates for or against  
> specs ? Or do you have any argument in favor of specs compared with  
> plain old test suites ?

Not really... but you could check out shoulda (http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects/shoulda/ 
) - it's closer to Test::Unit (basically a set of macros on top of  
Test::Unit), but server a similar purpose as rSpec. You have to solve  
the mock question (if you want to use mocks at all) - I'd recommend to  
check out Mocha.

Cheers,
Peter
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