What is the Path to Learn BDD on Ruby On Rails?

Question

I want to start BDD on Ruby On Rails what should I learn? I don't know anything about BDD, RSpec or Cucumber. What is the best way to learn? Tutorials? Something that cover things like 'What behavior I should test?' etc.

thanks!

Answer 1

Start at the top, RSpec home page:

http://rspec.info/

Answer 2

here is a useful tutorial

http://www.lukeredpath.co.uk/blog/developing-a-rails-model-using-bdd-and-rspec-part-1.html

Answer 3

Start with two articles by Dan North: Introducing BDD, followed closely What's in a Story?

Answer 4

RSpec specific; I keep these links for reference (might be advance for beginners). But just wanna share it with you. (Some of it probably already outdated but I think still worth a read)

Rspec Link Fest - links to other references

RSpec in Controllers: Testing your Application Controller with rSpec

Testing Controllers with rspec

Using Rspec on Controllers

RSpec in Models: stub_model by Dave Chelimsky

Do we really need Controller and View tests? - some discussion

RSpec in Views:

RSpec testing views for escaped HTML

Rspec Stories (now Cucumber):

Understanding RSpec Stories - a Tutorial

Rspec on Windows:

RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows - dunno if this still relevant

p/s: Some are from 2007, I'm not sure if the stuffs are outdated or not, but these are the some of my references used to learn RSpec. Hope it helps

Answer 5

I found this to be a useful video to introduce bdd/cucumber, and actually see it in action: http://mwrc2009.confreaks.com/14-mar-2009-15-00-bdd-with-cucumber-ben-mabey.html