[ANN] rspec-rails 1.2.0 Released

rspec-rails version 1.2.0 has been released!

Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby on Rails.

Changes:

Version 1.2.0

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Due to changes in Rails-2.3, there are some
changes
in rspec-rails-1.2.0 that might break some specs in your existing apps.
Be
sure to see http://wiki.github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/rails and
http://wiki.github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/upgrades for information about
upgrading.

IMPORTANT: This release includes the following
backwards-compatibility-breaking changes.

  • rspec-rails supports rails 2.0.5, 2.1.2 and 2.2.2, and 2.3.1

    • We are no longer supporting 1.x versions of rails.
  • expect_render and stub_render have been removed.

    • Both of these methods were deprecated in rspec-rails-1.1.5,
      released in Sept, 2008.
  • { route_for(args).should == “/path” } now delegates to
    assert_generates (in rails)

    • see Upgrade.markdown for more information
  • deprecations

    • controller.use_rails_error_handling! is deprecated
      • use rescue_action_in_public! (from rails) instead
  • enhancements

    • Adding status codes to redirect_to matcher (Damian J.). Closes
      #570.
    • Initialize current URL before executing any examples in a
      ViewExampleGroup (Wilson B.). Closes #654.
    • Support query strings in params_from (Wilson B.). Closes
      #652.
    • delegate route_for to assert_recognizes (less brittle)
    • it { should be_valid } (Kakutani). Closes #665.
    • controller is implicit subject in controller specs (Joe Ferris).
      #686.
    • template is implicit subject in view specs (Joe Ferris). #686.
    • redirect_to and render_template matchers can accept controller or
      response (Joe Ferris). Closes #686.
    • generated specs use declarative docstrings
    • rspec_scaffold generator generates layout and stylesheet (per
      Rails-2.3)
    • add bypass_rescue for controller specs
    • infer template path from the first arg passed to describe in view
      specs
    • separate routing specs (in spec/routing)
  • bug fixes

    • you no longer have to load ActionMailer to get specs to run.
      Closes #650.
    • query_params are now parsed by Rack::Utils.parse_query in
      redirect_to matcher. Closes #684.
    • cleaned up spec_server (there was a bunch of pre-rails 2.0
      material). Closes #685.
    • rspec’s rake tasks are not loaded when running “rake gems” or any
      of its subtasks
    • only warn when rspec is not installed when trying to invoke an
      rspec rake task
    • support 2 arg version of ActionController::Base#render (reported
      by Nathan W.)
    • rake spec:server:start doesn’t choke if there is no tmp directory
    • force cache_classes = false when running with spec_server. Closes
      #287.
    • keep spec_server working against edge rails (Jonathan T.). Closes
      #685.
    • create lib/tasks if not present when running script/generate
      rspec. Closes #687.
    • fixed regression (and added spec so it won’t regress again) where
      render => :inline didn’t render unless integrate_views was set
    • fixed nil.with_output_buffer bug in helper specs. Closes #719.