Ruby - RSpec

Ruby module R211

RSpec

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module R211. This module is presented on Private Courses and Specially Run Courses only

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
4681	Ruby testing with RSpec - a new example If you're wanting to test your Ruby classes, I recommend writing a test suite using RSpec - fresh example from today's course [here]. * Write the tests first - that's "test driven development" and then write the code to ensure that all the tests pass. * If you find fault in you code later, add another ...	2016-05-19
4579	Behaviour and test driven development in Ruby using RSpec RSpec is a Test / Behaviourish Driven Development Gem for Ruby that you'll commonly find used in associaition with Rails, Gherkin, Cucumber, Watir, Selenium, Capybara ... but it can also be used stand alone. One of the big problems of starting to use it stand alone is to find an example which doesn't ...	2015-11-21
4544	RSpec - Ruby testing (stand alone example / no cucumber) RSpec can be used as a stand alone test environment for your Ruby program, as well as being used within Gherkin and Cucumber (see [here] for some details of that). Installation as a Ruby Gem (you may need admin permissions): gem install rspec Run your program under the new executable rspec ...	2015-10-17
4386	Guide exercise to help you learn Gherkin, Cucumber and Rspec During today's Ruby course, I moved on to Cucumber and Gherkin very quickly - for a private course with delegates looking to using Behaviour Driven Development as the core of their work. Ruby's basics were covered first - variables, calculations, conditionals and loops. Then we moved on to functions, ...	2015-01-06
4383	Improved test in Cucumber with RSpec Articles in this "Introduction to Cucumber" series: [link] - Installing Cucumber for Ruby [link] - Hello Test Cucumber World [link] - First real tests / second example [link] - Improved tests with RSpec pass and fail tests are very basic - so we can use other Ruby gems (such as Rspec) ...	2015-01-03

Examples from our training material

rs001	First RSpec example (no cucumber)
rsx	Class testing with rspec
several.rb	Testing with multiple data values
tables.feature	Behaviour definition - for a restaurant table
tables.rb	Definition of tables derived from behaviour and test specs
tables_steps.rb	Steps for implementing test behaviou for restaurant tables
testmatrix.rb	Matrix of tests with rspec

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from [here].

Topics covered in this module

The RSpec command.
Rspec-core.
Flexible and customizable reporting.
Extensible expectation language.
Built-in mocking/stubbing framework.

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