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RSpec Textmate bundle and RSpec edge

Written by matt on March 29th, 2007

UPDATE:

Aslak Hellesoy just mentioned in a comment that the trunk version of RSpec bundle for TextMate ( svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/trunk ) doesn't require the RSpec Gem installed anymore.

To install the bundle: 

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/
 svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/branches/0.9-dev/RSpec.tmbundle




I recently discovered RSpec, well, not really, but I finally got to start using RSpec.
For those who don't know RSpec , RSpec is a BDD testing framework, or in better words: RSpec is a Behaviour Definition Framework well suited for practicing Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) in Ruby.

If you don't know what is BDD, then just check out http://behaviour-driven.org/, in few words, it's TDD (Test Driven Development in better)

Anyway, I'm working on a Rails project where we use the trunk/edge version RSpec plugin. I'm using my favorite editor: TextMate and I noticed that the RSpec team created a cool bundle for textmate.

I was quite excited until I tried running a spec and realized that the task failed giving some errors about some missing methods... Well, the thing is we replaced "context ... do" by "describe ... do" and "specify ... do" by "it ... do" see David's post about this specific change in trunk:

The Textmate bundle uses the ruby gem instead of the plugin and since I'm trying to use methods only defined in trunk the bundle simply dies on me every time I try to run my specs.

The only solution for me was to run a trunk version of the RSpec gem, here is what to do:

Check out RSpec trunk from: svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/trunk
Check out RSpec trunk into its own project, or if you're interested in
using/learning RSpec for a particular Rails project, consider using
svn:externals to check out RSpec trunk into your [RailsRoot]/vendor
directory:

svn propset svn:externals "rspec svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/trunk"
vendor

then update to grab the latest code from RSpec trunk:

svn update vendor

Next, build the gem.  You have to be standing in vendor/rspec if you're
using svn:externals (as described above) or the root of RSpec if you checked
it out as its own project.

rake gem

then install it:

gem install pkg/rspec-X.X.X.gem (where X.X.X is the version number reported
in the output from "rake gem")

---- from http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rspec-users/2006-November/000135.html

That's it, now I can run my specs directly from Textmate the same way I was doing with Unit Test.

( on a different post I'll explain why I couldn't simply run rake:spec )





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  • Aslak Hellesøy on 03 Apr 08:22

    The branches/0.9-dev in RSpec now lets you use RSpec.tmbundle with RSpec installed as a plugin. No RSpec gem needed anymore!

  • Matt on 03 Apr 15:46

    Great, thanks Aslak Matt

  • Aslak Hellesøy on 11 Apr 03:01

    Just a heads up - branches/0.9-dev is now moved to trunk, so that is where you should go to get the latest.

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