[Rails] Re: Beginning with BDD: Rspec or Cucumber? What is better documented?

I'd recommend learning RSpec first, as Cucumber is an additional abstraction above.  Think of it this way:

RSpec: reads more like code, but you can see exactly which methods are being called, etc.

Cucumber: reads more like English, but you have to maintain a file to "translate" from the code

Cucumber is often used when interacting with clients who don't necessarily know how to code, as they will be able to understand the plain language and can even help create some of the tests themselves.

On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:05:55 PM UTC-7, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:

Thank you for this very useful reply, Robert.

I decided to go with the RSpec book now, because from its foreword I can
tell that it's not only about RSpec, but it's also about Cucumber (and
many other accompanying tools, too), so I'm quite confident I will get a
good introduction in both tools and will know which one I want to use
(or even both).

And you're right about the date of the book - the basic ideas don't
happen to change that fast, and it won't be too tricky to catch up with
the new features after I grasped the basic concepts.

Thanks again, I'm confident that I'm on a good way now!

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