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+== RSpec
+
+RSpec is a Behaviour Definition Framework intended for use in Behaviour
+Driven Development. RSpec plays the same role that a unit testing framework
+would play in a Test Driven Development environment, but does so using
+words and structures that better support BDD.
+
+RSpec ships with four modules:
+
+Spec::Matchers provides Expression Matchers for use with Spec::Expectations
+and Spec::Mocks.
+
+Spec::Expectations supports setting expectations on your objects so you
+can do things like:
+
+ result.should equal(expected_result)
+
+Spec::Mocks supports creating Mock Objects, Stubs, and adding Mock/Stub
+behaviour to your existing objects.
+
+Spec::Runner provides a very small but powerful DSL for writing executable
+examples of how your code should work.
+
+== Installation
+
+The simplest approach is to install the gem:
+
+ gem install -r rspec #mac users must sudo
+
+== Building the RSpec gem
+If you prefer to build the gem locally, check out source from svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/trunk. Then
+do the following:
+
+ rake gem
+ gem install pkg/rspec-0.x.x.gem (you may have to sudo)
+
+== Running RSpec's specs
+In order to run RSpec's full suite of specs (rake pre_commit) you must install the following gems:
+
+* rake # Runs the build script
+* rcov # Verifies that the code is 100% covered by specs
+* webgen # Generates the static HTML website
+* RedCloth # Required by webgen
+* syntax # Required by our own custom webgen extension to highlight ruby code
+* diff-lcs # Required if you use the --diff switch
+* win32console # Required by the --colour switch if you're on Windows
+* meta_project # Required in order to make releases at RubyForge
+* heckle # Required if you use the --heckle switch
+* hpricot # Used for parsing HTML from the HTML output formatter in RSpec's own specs
+
+Once those are all installed, you should be able to run the suite with the following steps:
+
+* svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/trunk rspec
+* cd rspec
+* rake install_dependencies
+* cd example_rails_app
+* export RSPEC_RAILS_VERSION=1.2.3
+* rake rspec:generate_mysql_config
+* mysql -u root < db/mysql_setup.sql
+* cd ..
+* rake pre_commit
+
+
+Note that RSpec itself - once built - doesn't have any dependencies outside the Ruby core
+and stdlib - with a few exceptions:
+
+* The spec command line uses diff-lcs when --diff is specified.
+* The spec command line uses heckle when --heckle is specified.
+* The Spec::Rake::SpecTask needs RCov if RCov is enabled in the task.
+
+See http://rspec.rubyforge.org for further documentation.