RSpec Monthly Update - January 2014

[Xavier Shay]

Hello and welcome to the monthly RSpec update!

Here you can find what the core team is up to, what we are planning, progress towards our next major release, and how you can help out.

Theme
Pushing towards 3.0 beta2, it's close.

Last Month

• John: Continue working on formatter registration.
• John: Lot of triage on incoming issues.
• Myron: expectations: Finished implementing composable matchers [1].
• Myron: expectations: Add `contain_exactly` as a new, more descriptive name for `match_array` [2].
• Myron: mocks: Make test double self-destruct after the example they were created in completes [3].
• Myron: mocks: Add `with_temporary_scope` method that can be used to use mocks outside the per-test lifecycle (e.g. in a `before(:all)` hook) [3].
• Sam: mocks: Make mocking/stubbing and doubles warn when used outside of a spec lifecycle, this mostly applies in before(:all)
• Sam: core: integrate with new mocks lifecycle

This Month

• John:�Finish off formatter registration�and notification changes.
  
• Myron: Release 2.99.0.beta2 and 3.0.0.beta2.
• Myron: Do a code audit of core, mocks and expectations to see what else (if anything) we want to get in before releasing RSpec 3.

How You Can Help

• Try the beta!�We are working hard to make this the smoothest major version upgrade you've ever done. Go to 2.99 first, fix deprecations, then on to 3. Report any issues�to the github issue tracker.
  

Cheers,
Xavier and the RSpec team.

[1]�http://myronmars.to/n/dev-blog/2014/01/new-in-rspec-3-composable-matchers

[2]�https://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/issues/398

[3]�https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/pull/519