Using a story to drive your development tasks is a good idea, even when there is only 1 team member. Writing stories helps you stay focused on the requirements without getting side-tracked into something that isn’t working toward the end goal of your app. There’s always time for script.aculo.us later! Using RSpec stories also means you have tests to run against your code so you know that fixing something probably didn’t break something else.

First thing you want to do is get the RSpec on Rails plugin installed, and generate the RSpec code.

$ ./script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git
$ ./script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git
$ ./script/generate rspec

Stories are broken down into 2.5 files:

• 1. The Story file - Where the plain text story resides
• 2. The Step file - Where the different steps in your story are defined.
• 2.5 The Story runner file - The ruby code that kicks everything off.

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Tags: bdd, internet, rails, rspec, ruby, stories, testing

Posted: June 27th, 2008 under Ruby on Rails.
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