From moses at collaborativedrug.com  Wed Dec  5 16:23:08 2007
From: moses at collaborativedrug.com (Moses M. Hohman)
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:23:08 -0800
Subject: [Rspec-ext-user] blending spec-selenium plugin into spec/ui
Message-ID: <AFC121C3-D168-4160-B2A6-347A28FF133D@collaborativedrug.com>

Hi folks,

Is this the right place to discuss plans to move spec-selenium  
(http://rubyforge.org/projects/spec-selenium/) into spec/ui? I want  
to start doing this soon.

Question:

1. What release of rspec should I target, the current 1.0.8  
architecture or the new one in trunk?
2. Chained examples are very useful for selenium specs in our  
experience, is this something people agree with providing as an  
option? See my blog post: http://www.moseshohman.com/blog/2007/08/08/50
3. Parsing tables can be done in IE via xpath, but it's very very  
very slow to use lots of xpath locators in IE (at least in IE6, one  
of our continuous build testing environments). At CDD we've moved  
toward fetching the HTML and parsing it with hpricot. Since an  
hpricot port exists for JRuby, is an hpricot dependency acceptable?  
If not, we can provide an xpath backup approach if hpricot is not  
available.

Looking forward to it,

Moses