# Experience with RSpec

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/experience-with-rspec/61841>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 28, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/experience-with-rspec/61841 "2006-05-28T18:58:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cuong\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Cuong\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cuong_T)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/experience-with-rspec/61841/1 "2006-05-28T18:58:22Z")

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Anyone with experience with RSpec care to share?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Cuong\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Cuong\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cuong_T)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/experience-with-rspec/61841/2 "2006-05-28T19:04:30Z")

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On May 28, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Cuong T. wrote:

> Anyone with experience with RSpec care to share?

I’ve done a bit with RSpec and I like it a lot. However, until the  
Rails plug-in is ready, it’s not a substitute for standard Unit  
Tests. Personally, I’m hoping the Rails plug-in comes along soon,  
since the way RSpec handles mocks is very cool, and vastly superior  
to the “stubs” that you would place in the test/mocks directory.

If you have questions about using RSpec for your standard Ruby  
projects, there is an RSpec mailing list you can post to.

-Brian

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**Author:** ![Cuong\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Cuong\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cuong_T)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/experience-with-rspec/61841/3 "2006-05-28T19:26:24Z")

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On 5/28/06, Brian H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> On May 28, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Cuong T. wrote:
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> > Anyone with experience with RSpec care to share?
> 
> I’ve done a bit with RSpec and I like it a lot. However, until the  
> Rails plug-in is ready, it’s not a substitute for standard Unit  
> Tests. Personally, I’m hoping the Rails plug-in comes along soon,  
> since the way RSpec handles mocks is very cool, and vastly superior  
> to the “stubs” that you would place in the test/mocks directory.

Is this the AR plugin being mentioned at  
[http://rspec.rubyforge.org/tools/rails.html](http://rspec.rubyforge.org/tools/rails.html)? Based on your response, I  
assume it’s not working yet?

If you have questions about using RSpec for your standard Ruby

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**Author:** ![Cuong\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Cuong\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cuong_T)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/experience-with-rspec/61841/4 "2006-05-29T06:47:08Z")

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On May 28, 2006, at 01:24 PM, Cuong T. wrote:

> Is this the AR plugin being mentioned at [http://rspec.rubyforge.org/](http://rspec.rubyforge.org/)  
> tools/rails.html?

Yes. That’s it. But it’s not an “AR plugin”, it’s a standard Rails  
plugin. Or, it will be, once it’s released.

> Based on your response, I assume it’s not working yet?

You don’t need to take my word for it, all you need to do is read the  
extremely short paragraph on that web page…

-Brian