[rspec-users] Why no rspec-rails gem?

[David Chelimsky]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Ben Mabey <ben at benmabey.com> wrote:
> Tim Harper wrote:
>> I was getting a little tired of adding 2 plugins every time I create a
>> new rails project, so I just built an rspec-rails gemspec, and it
>> works perfectly well.  Does anybody know why there isn't a public
>> rspec-rails gem?
>>
>> Tim
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> Hey Tim,
> I actually added a 'gem' task to the rspec-rails project a while ago..
> It was soon deprecated in favor of using Hoe however.  Either way though
> rspec-rails on github allows you to build the gem yourself using rake
> and install it locally.  I think the reason for not making it an
> official gem is that it really meant to be a rails plugin and the fact
> that it is usually a good idea to freeze both rspec and rspec-rails in
> your app to avoid dependency problems between teams and projects.  I
> suppose with the new rails gem management feature those  reasons are
> somewhat mitigated...  I think it would be a good idea to make the
> rspec-rails available as a gem as well because I have needed it as a gem
> in the past for merb apps. (You can reuse some of the AR specific
> helpers in other non-rails AR projects.)  So +1 on making it a public
> gem (at least just on github.)

We are definitely planning to release an rspec-rails gem, but not
until we do a release :)

With Rails-2.2.0 around the corner, we'll release shortly after that
(once we're able to resolve any incompatibilities with edge rails).

Cheers,
David

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> -Ben
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