Any news on the rSpec books?

Testing RSpec
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I admit it, when it comes to rSpec, I’m lazy. I’ve made a few feeble
attempts to use it, but for once I’m waiting for a book-length
treatment. At least two books were announced, I think. Can anyone in
the know please report on their progress?

Thanks
Michael

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Michael S.
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.schuerig.de/michael/

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I sent an inquiry to Prag Bookshelf but didn’t hear anything – saw
something online that led me to believe they were the publisher.

PeepCode has several RSpec screencasts.

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Michael S. [email protected]

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There are three I know about, one of which I’m working on (Prag
Bookshelf). I can tell you the one I’m working on will be in beta
sometime in the next few months, but I can’t really be any more
specific than that right now. I can assure you that as things get more
specific I’ll be blogging about it like crazy.

Cheers,
David

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Any news on this?

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Martin Bernd S.
[email protected] wrote:

Any news on this?

We’ve enlisted the help of three more authors: Dan N., Bryan
Helmkamp and Zach D… Dan is going to contribute a BDD overview.
Bryan and Zach are working on the section on using RSpec with Rails.
I’m wrapping up a rather detailed tutorial.

We don’t have a date certain on this, but we are definitely making
rapid progress at this point. I’ll keep the list posted.

Cheers,
David

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On Aug 15, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Matt W. [email protected] wrote:

Aidy Lewis (who posts on here from time to time) and I were using
RSpec at a .NET shop, using the story runner as a layer over Watir
to drive ASP.NET websites, and I know Aidy is still carrying on with
that work.

I’d suggest including a chapter about how to drive non-ruby apps
through RSpec might broaden the book’s appeal.

Great idea. Thanks!

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There are also some success stories around using rspec story runner +
jruby
as a functional testing layer for Java apps. Someone blogged about it a
while ago but I forget who.

Cheers,
Dan

2008/8/15 David C. [email protected]

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Aidy Lewis (who posts on here from time to time) and I were using
RSpec at a .NET shop, using the story runner as a layer over Watir to
drive ASP.NET websites, and I know Aidy is still carrying on with
that work.

I’d suggest including a chapter about how to drive non-ruby apps
through RSpec might broaden the book’s appeal.

cheers,
Matt

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On Aug 20, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Pat M. wrote:

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Dan N. [email protected]
wrote:

There are also some success stories around using rspec story runner

  • jruby
    as a functional testing layer for Java apps. Someone blogged about
    it a
    while ago but I forget who.

http://pivots.pivotallabs.com/users/pzabelin/blog/articles/375-functional-tests-for-java-project-rspec-jruby

http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/tree/master/examples/java

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Dan N. [email protected] wrote:

There are also some success stories around using rspec story runner + jruby
as a functional testing layer for Java apps. Someone blogged about it a
while ago but I forget who.

http://pivots.pivotallabs.com/users/pzabelin/blog/articles/375-functional-tests-for-java-project-rspec-jruby