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Many prominent Rails developers have jumped on the BDD bandwagon, and with good reason! It’s a great workflow and values clarity, small steps, database-independence, and self-documenting code.

If Test::Unit doesn’t make sense to you, or if you want to write better code, this is the place to start.

This 55 minute screencast is the first of a 3-part series on RSpec. You’ll learn how to install and configure RSpec. We’ll walk through a simple project. Then we’ll install RSpec in a Rails application and start writing examples for a simple model.

NOTE The code download has been updated to work with the latest Rails 2.1 and RSpec 1.1.4.

Part 2 is available now and covers mocking, stubbing, and custom matchers. Part 3 will cover controllers, views, and auxiliary tools.

Skills

This screencast assumes that you are familiar with Ruby and the basics of writing a Rails application. The Rails from Scratch screencast covers these concepts.

Revision 3 (Notes) · Updated: Dec 09, 2008 · Length: 55 min · 40 MB

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