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5.0.1 / 2021-03-18

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Bug Fixes:

• Limit multibyte example descriptions when used in system tests for #method_name which ends up as screenshot names etc. (@y-yagi, #2405, #2487)

5.0.0 / 2021-03-09

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Enhancements:

• Support new #file_fixture_path and new fixture test support code. (Jon Rowe, #2398)
• Support for Rails 6.1. (Benoit Tigeot, Jon Rowe, Phil Pirozhkov, and more #2398)

Breaking Changes:

• Drop support for Rails below 5.2.

4.1.1 / 2021-03-09

Bug Fixes:

• Remove generated specs when destroying a generated controller. (@Naokimi, #2475)

4.1.0 / 2021-03-06

Enhancements:

• Issue a warning when using job matchers with #at mis-match on usec precision. (Jon Rowe, #2350)
• Generated request specs now have a bare _spec suffix instead of request_spec. (Eloy Espinaco, Luka Lüdicke, #2355, #2356, #2378)
• Generated scaffold now includes engine route helpers when inside a mountable engine. (Andrew W. Lee, #2372)
• Improve request spec "controller" scafold when no action is specified. (Thomas Hareau, #2399)
• Introduce testing snippets concept (Phil Pirozhkov, Benoit Tigeot, #2423)
• Prevent collisions with let(:name) for Rails 6.1 and let(:method_name) on older Rails. (Benoit Tigeot, #2461)

4.0.2 / 2020-12-26

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Bug Fixes:

• Indent all extra failure lines output from system specs. (Alex Robbin, #2321)
• Generated request spec for update now uses the correct let. (Paul Hanyzewski, #2344)
• Return true/false from predicate methods in config rather than raw values. (Phil Pirozhkov, Jon Rowe, #2353, #2354)
• Remove old #fixture_path feature detection code which broke under newer Rails. (Koen Punt, Jon Rowe, #2370)
• Fix an error when use_active_record is false (Phil Pirozhkov, #2423)

4.0.1 / 2020-05-16

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Bug Fixes:

• Remove warning when calling driven_by in system specs. (Aubin Lorieux, #2302)
• Fix comparison of times for #at in job matchers. (Jon Rowe, Markus Doits, #2304)
• Allow have_enqueued_mail to match when a sub class of ActionMailer::DeliveryJob is set using <Class>.delivery_job=. (Atsushi Yoshida #2305)
• Restore Ruby 2.2.x compatibility. (Jon Rowe, #2332)
• Add required_ruby_version to gem spec. (Marc-André Lafortune, #2319, #2338)

4.0.0 / 2020-03-24

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Enhancements:

• Adds support for Rails 6. (Penelope Phippen, Benoit Tigeot, Jon Rowe, #2071)
• Adds support for JRuby on Rails 5.2 and 6
• Add support for parameterised mailers (Ignatius Reza, #2125)
• Add ActionMailbox spec helpers and test type (James Dabbs, #2119)
• Add ActionCable spec helpers and test type (Vladimir Dementyev, #2113)
• Add support for partial args when using have_enqueued_mail (Ignatius Reza, #2118, #2125)
• Add support for time arguments for have_enqueued_job (@alpaca-tc, #2157)
• Improve path parsing in view specs render options. (John Hawthorn, #2115)
• Add routing spec template as an option for generating controller specs. (David Revelo, #2134)
• Add argument matcher support to have_enqueued_* matchers. (Phil Pirozhkov, #2206)
• Switch generated templates to use ruby 1.9 hash keys. (Tanbir Hasan, #2224)
• Add have_been_performed/have_performed_job/perform_job ActiveJob matchers (Isaac Seymour, #1785)
• Default to generating request specs rather than controller specs when generating a controller (Luka Lüdicke, #2222)
• Allow ActiveJob matchers #on_queue modifier to take symbolic queue names. (Nils Sommer, #2283)
• The scaffold generator now generates request specs in preference to controller specs. (Luka Lüdicke, #2288)
• Add configuration option to disable ActiveRecord. (Jon Rowe, Phil Pirozhkov, Hermann Mayer, #2266)
• Set ActionDispatch::SystemTesting::Server.silence_puma = true when running system specs. (ta1kt0me, Benoit Tigeot, #2289)

Bug Fixes:

• EmptyTemplateHandler.call now needs to support an additional argument in Rails 6. (Pavel Rosický, #2089)
• Suppress warning from SQLite3Adapter.represent_boolean_as_integer which is deprecated. (Pavel Rosický, #2092)
• ActionView::Template#formats has been deprecated and replaced by ActionView::Template#format(Seb Jacobs, #2100)
• Replace before_teardown as well as after_teardown to ensure screenshots are generated correctly. (Jon Rowe, #2164)
• ActionView::FixtureResolver#hash has been renamed to ActionView::FixtureResolver#data. (Penelope Phippen, #2076)
• Prevent driven_by(:selenium) being called due to hook precedence. (Takumi Shotoku, #2188)
• Prevent a WrongScopeError being thrown during loading fixtures on Rails 6.1 development version. (Edouard Chin, #2215)
• Fix Mocha mocking support with should. (Phil Pirozhkov, #2256)
• Restore previous conditional check for setting default_url_options in feature specs, prevents a NoMethodError in some scenarios. (Eugene Kenny, #2277)
• Allow changing ActiveJob::Base.queue_adapter inside a system spec. (Jonathan Rochkind, #2242)
• rails generate generator command now creates related spec file (Joel Azemar, #2217)
• Relax upper capybara version constraint to allow for Capybara 3.x (Phil Pirozhkov, #2281)
• Clear ActionMailer test mailbox after each example (Benoit Tigeot, #2293)

Breaking Changes:

• Drops support for Rails below 5.0
• Drops support for Ruby below 2.3

3.9.1 / 2020-03-10

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Bug Fixes:

• Add missing require for have_enqueued_mail matcher. (Ignatius Reza, #2117)

3.9.0 / 2019-10-08

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Enhancements

• Use __dir__ instead of __FILE__ in generated rails_helper.rb where supported. (OKURA Masafumi, #2048)
• Add have_enqueued_mail matcher as a "super" matcher to the ActiveJob matchers making it easier to match on ActiveJob delivered emails. (Joel Lubrano, #2047)
• Add generator for system specs on Rails 5.1 and above. (Andrzej Sliwa, #1933)
• Add generator for generator specs. (@ConSou, #2085)
• Add option to generate routes when generating controller specs. (David Revelo, #2134)

Bug Fixes:

• Make the ActiveJob matchers fail when multiple jobs are queued for negated matches. e.g. expect { job; job; }.to_not have_enqueued_job. (Emric Istanful, #2069)

3.8.3 / 2019-10-03

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Bug Fixes:

• Namespaced fixtures now generate a / seperated path rather than an _. (@nxlith, #2077)
• Check the arity of errors before attempting to use it to generate the be_valid error message. (Kevin Kuchta, #2096)

3.8.2 / 2019-01-13

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix issue with generator for preview specs where Mailer would be duplicated in the name. (Kohei Sugi, #2037)
• Fix the request spec generator to handle namespaced files. (Kohei Sugi, #2057)
• Further truncate system test filenames to handle cases when extra words are prepended. (Takumi Kaji, #2058)
• Backport: Make the ActiveJob matchers fail when multiple jobs are queued for negated matches. e.g. `expect { job; job; }.to_not have_enqueued_job (Emric Istanful, #2069)

3.8.1 / 2018-10-23

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix NoMethodError: undefined method 'strip' when using a Pathname object as the fixture file path. (Aaron Kromer, #2026)
• When generating feature specs, do not duplicate namespace in the path name. (Laura Paakkinen, #2034)
• Prevent ActiveJob::DeserializationError from being issued when ActiveJob matchers de-serialize arguments. (@aymeric-ledorze, #2036)

3.8.0 / 2018-08-04

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Enhancements:

• Improved message when migrations are pending in the default rails_helper.rb (Koichi ITO, #1924)
• have_http_status matcher now supports Rails 5.2 style response symbols (Douglas Lovell, #1951)
• Change generated Rails helper to match Rails standards for Rails.root (Alessandro Rodi, #1960)
• At support for asserting enqueued jobs have no wait period attached. (Brad Charna, #1977)
• Cache instances of ActionView::Template used in stub_template resulting in increased performance due to less allocations and setup. (Simon Coffey, #1979)
• Rails scaffold generator now respects longer namespaces (e.g. api/v1/<thing>). (Laura Paakkinen, #1958)

Bug Fixes:

• Escape quotation characters when producing method names for system spec screenshots. (Shane Cavanaugh, #1955)
• Use relative path for resolving fixtures when fixture_path is not set. (Laurent Cobos, #1943)
• Allow custom template resolvers in view specs. (@ahorek, #1941)

3.7.2 / 2017-11-20

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Bug Fixes:

• Delay loading system test integration until used. (Jon Rowe, #1903)
• Ensure specs using the aggregate failures feature take screenshots on failure. (Matt Brictson, #1907)

3.7.1 / 2017-10-18

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Bug Fixes:

• Prevent system test integration loading when puma or capybara are missing (Sam Phippen, #1884)

3.7.0 / 2017-10-17

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Bug Fixes:

• Prevent "template not rendered" log message from erroring in threaded environments. (Samuel Cochran, #1831)
• Correctly generate job name in error message. (Wojciech Wnętrzak, #1814)

Enhancements:

• Allow be_a_new(...).with(...) matcher to accept matchers for attribute values. (Britni Alexander, #1811)
• Only configure RSpec Mocks if it is fully loaded. (James Adam, #1856)
• Integrate with ActionDispatch::SystemTestCase. (Sam Phippen, #1813)

3.6.0 / 2017-05-04

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Enhancements:

• Add compatibility for Rails 5.1. (Sam Phippen, Yuichiro Kaneko, #1790)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix scaffold generator so that it does not generate broken controller specs on Rails 3.x and 4.x. (Yuji Nakayama, #1710)

3.6.0.beta2 / 2016-12-12

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Enhancements:

• Improve failure output of ActiveJob matchers by listing queued jobs. (Wojciech Wnętrzak, #1722)
• Load spec_helper.rb earlier in rails_helper.rb by default. (Kevin Glowacz, #1795)

3.6.0.beta1 / 2016-10-09

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Enhancements:

• Add support for rake notes in Rails >= 5.1. (John Meehan, #1661)
• Remove assigns and assert_template from scaffold spec generators (Josh Justice, #1689)
• Add support for generating scaffolds for api app specs. (Krzysztof Zych, #1685)

3.5.2 / 2016-08-26

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Bug Fixes:

• Stop unnecessarily loading rspec/core from rspec/rails to avoid IRB context warning. (Myron Marston, #1678)
• Deserialize arguments within ActiveJob matchers correctly. (Wojciech Wnętrzak, #1684)

3.5.1 / 2016-07-08

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Bug Fixes:

• Only attempt to load ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest::Behavior on Rails 5, and above; Prevents possible TypeError when an existing Behaviour class is defined. (#1660, Betesh).

3.5.0 / 2016-07-01

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3.5.0.beta4 / 2016-06-05

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Enhancements:

• Add support for block when using with on have_enqueued_job. (John Schroeder, #1578)
• Add support for file_fixture(...). (Wojciech Wnętrzak, #1587)
• Add support for setup and teardown with blocks (Miklós Fazekas, #1598)
• Add enqueue_job alias for have_enqueued_job, support once/twice/ thrice, add have_been_enqueued matcher to support use without blocks. (Sergey Alexandrovich, #1613)

Bug fixes:

• Prevent asset helpers from taking precendence over route helpers. (Prem Sichanugrist, #1496)
• Prevent NoMethodError during failed have_rendered assertions on weird templates. (Jon Rowe, #1623).

3.5.0.beta3 / 2016-04-02

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Enhancements:

• Add support for Rails 5 Beta 3 (Sam Phippen, Benjamin Quorning, Koen Punt, #1589, #1573)

Bug fixes:

• Support custom resolvers when preventing views from rendering. (Jon Rowe, Benjamin Quorning, #1580)

3.5.0.beta2 / 2016-03-10

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Enhancements:

• Include ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest::Behavior in request spec example groups when on Rails 5, allowing integration test helpers to be used in request specs. (Scott Bronson, #1560)

Bug fixes:

• Make it possible to use floats in auto generated (scaffold) tests. (Alwahsh, #1550)

3.5.0.beta1 / 2016-02-06

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Enhancements:

• Add a --singularize option for the feature spec generator (Felicity McCabe, #1503)
• Prevent leaking TestUnit methods in Rails 4+ (Fernando Seror Garcia, #1512)
• Add support for Rails 5 (Sam Phippen, #1492)

Bug fixes:

• Make it possible to write nested specs within helper specs on classes that are internal to helper classes. (Sam Phippen, Peter Swan, #1499).
• Warn if a fixture method is called from a before(:context) block, instead of crashing with a undefined method for nil:NilClass. (Sam Phippen, #1501)
• Expose path to view specs (Ryan Clark, Sarah Mei, Sam Phippen, #1402)
• Prevent installing Rails 3.2.22.1 on Ruby 1.8.7. (Jon Rowe, #1540)
• Raise a clear error when have_enqueued_job is used with non-test adapter. (Wojciech Wnętrzak, #1489)

3.4.2 / 2016-02-02

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Bug Fixes:

• Cache template resolvers during path lookup to prevent performance regression from #1535. (Andrew White, #1544)

3.4.1 / 2016-01-25

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix no method error when rendering templates with explicit :file parameters for Rails version 4.2.5.1. (Andrew White, Sam Phippen, #1535)

3.4.0 / 2015-11-11

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Enhancements:

• Improved the failure message for have_rendered matcher on a redirect response. (Alex Egan, #1440)
• Add configuration option to filter out Rails gems from backtraces. (Bradley Schaefer, #1458)
• Enable resolver cache for view specs for a large speed improvement (Chris Zetter, #1452)
• Add have_enqueued_job matcher for checking if a block has queued jobs. (Wojciech Wnętrzak, #1464)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix another load order issued which causes an undefined method fixture_path error when loading rspec-rails after a spec has been created. (Nikki Murray, #1430)
• Removed incorrect surrounding whitespace in the rspec-rails backtrace exclusion pattern for its own lib code. (Jam Black, #1439)

3.3.3 / 2015-07-15

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix issue with generators caused by Rails.configuration.hidden_namespaces including symbols. (Dan Kohn, #1414)

3.3.2 / 2015-06-18

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix regression that caused stubbing abstract ActiveRecord model classes to trigger internal errors in rails due the the verifying double lifecycle wrongly calling define_attribute_methods on the abstract AR class. (Jon Rowe, #1396)

3.3.1 / 2015-06-14

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix regression that caused stubbing ActiveRecord model classes to trigger internal errors in rails. (Myron Marston, Aaron Kromer, #1395)

3.3.0 / 2015-06-12

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Enhancements:

• Add support for PATCH to route specs created via scaffold. (Igor Zubkov, #1336)
• Improve controller and routing spec calls to routes by using yield instead of call. (Anton Davydov, #1308)
• Add support for ActiveJob specs as standard RSpec::Rails::RailsExampleGoups via both type: :job and inferring type from spec directory spec/jobs. (Gabe Martin-Dempesy, #1361)
• Include RSpec::Rails::FixtureSupport into example groups using metadata use_fixtures: true. (Aaron Kromer, #1372)
• Include rspec:request generator for generating request specs; this is an alias of rspec:integration (Aaron Kromer, #1378)
• Update rails_helper generator with a default check to abort the spec run when the Rails environment is production. (Aaron Kromer, #1383)

3.2.3 / 2015-06-06

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix regression with the railtie resulting in undefined method preview_path= on Rails 3.x and 4.0 (Aaron Kromer, #1388)

3.2.2 / 2015-06-03

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix auto-including of generic Helper object for view specs sitting in the app/views root (David Daniell, #1289)
• Remove pre-loading of ActionMailer in the Railtie (Aaron Kromer, #1327)
• Fix undefined method need_auto_run= error when using Ruby 2.1 and Rails 3.2 without the test-unit gem (Orien Madgwick, #1350)
• Fix load order issued which causes an undefined method fixture_path error when loading rspec-rails after a spec has been created. (Aaron Kromer, #1372)

3.2.1 / 2015-02-23

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Bug Fixes:

• Add missing require to RSpec generator root fixing an issue where Rail's autoload does not find it in some environments. (Aaron Kromer, #1305)
• be_routable matcher now has the correct description. (Tony Ta, #1310)
• Fix dependency to allow Rails 4.2.x patches / pre-releases (Lucas Mazza, #1318)
• Disable the test-unit gem's autorunner on projects running Rails < 4.1 and Ruby < 2.2 (Aaron Kromer, #1320)

3.2.0 / 2015-02-03

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Enhancements:

• Include generator for ActionMailer mailer previews (Takashi Nakagawa, #1185)
• Configure the ActionMailer preview path via a Railtie (Aaron Kromer, #1236)
• Show all RSpec generators when running rails generate (Eliot Sykes, #1248)
• Support Ruby 2.2 with Rails 3.2 and 4.x (Aaron Kromer, #1264, #1277)
• Improve instance_double to support verifying dynamic column methods defined by ActiveRecord (Jon Rowe, #1238)
• Mirror the use of Ruby 1.9 hash syntax for the type tags in the spec generators on Rails 4. (Michael Stock, #1292)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix rspec:feature generator to use RSpec namespace preventing errors when monkey-patching is disabled. (Rebecca Skinner, #1231)
• Fix NoMethodError caused by calling RSpec.feature when Capybara is not available or the Capybara version is < 2.4.0. (Aaron Kromer, #1261)
• Fix ArgumentError when using an anonymous controller which inherits an outer group's anonymous controller. (Yuji Nakayama, #1260)
• Fix "Test is not a class (TypeError)" error when using a custom Test class in Rails 4.1 and 4.2. (Aaron Kromer, #1295)

3.1.0 / 2014-09-04

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Enhancements:

• Switch to using the have_http_status matcher in spec generators. (Aaron Kromer, #1086)
• Update rails_helper generator to allow users to opt-in to auto-loading spec/support files instead of forcing it upon them. (Aaron Kromer, #1137)
• Include generator for ActiveJob. (Abdelkader Boudih, #1155)
• Improve support for non-ActiveRecord apps by not loading ActiveRecord related settings in the generated rails_helper. (Aaron Kromer, #1150)
• Remove Ruby warnings as a suggested configuration. (Aaron Kromer, #1163)
• Improve the semantics of the controller spec for scaffolds. (Griffin Smith, #1204)
• Use #method syntax in all generated controller specs. (Griffin Smith, #1206)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix controller route lookup for Rails 4.2. (Tomohiro Hashidate, #1142)

3.0.2 / 2014-07-21

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Bug Fixes:

• Suppress warning in SetupAndTeardownAdapter. (André Arko, #1085)
• Remove dependency on Rubygems. (Andre Arko & Doc Riteze, #1099)
• Standardize controller spec template style. (Thomas Kriechbaumer, #1122)

3.0.1 / 2014-06-02

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix missing require in rails g rspec:install. (Sam Phippen, #1058)

3.0.0 / 2014-06-01

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Enhancements:

• Separate RSpec configuration in generated spec_helper from Rails setup and associated configuration options. Moving Rails specific settings and options to rails_helper. (Aaron Kromer)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix an issue with fixture support when ActiveRecord isn't loaded. (Jon Rowe)

3.0.0.rc1 / 2014-05-18

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Breaking Changes for 3.0.0:

• Extracts the mock_model and stub_model methods to the rspec-activemodel-mocks gem. (Thomas Holmes)
• Spec types are no longer inferred by location, they instead need to be explicitly tagged. The old behaviour is enabled by config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!, which is still supplied in the default generated spec_helper.rb. (Xavier Shay, Myron Marston)
• controller macro in controller specs no longer mutates :described_class metadata. It still overrides the subject and sets the controller, though. (Myron Marston)
• Stop depending on or requiring rspec-collection_matchers. Users who want those matchers should add the gem to their Gemfile and require it themselves. (Myron Marston)
• Removes runtime dependency on ActiveModel. (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)

Enhancements:

• Supports Rails 4.x reference attribute ids in generated scaffold for view specs. (Giovanni Cappellotto)
• Add have_http_status matcher. (Aaron Kromer)
• Add spec type metadata to generator templates. (Aaron Kromer)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix an inconsistency in the generated scaffold specs for a controller. (Andy Waite)
• Ensure config.before(:all, type: <type>) hooks run before groups of the given type, even when the type is inferred by the file location. (Jon Rowe, Myron Marston)
• Switch to parsing params with Rack::Utils::parse_nested_query to match Rails. (Tim Watson)
• Fix incorrect namespacing of anonymous controller routes. (Aaron Kromer)

3.0.0.beta2 / 2014-02-17

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Breaking Changes for 3.0.0:

• Removes the --webrat option for the request spec generator (Andy Lindeman)
• Methods from Capybara::DSL (e.g., visit) are no longer available in controller specs. It is more appropriate to use capybara in feature specs (spec/features) instead. (Andy Lindeman)
• infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers is enabled by default. (Thomas Holmes)
• Capybara 2.2.0 or above is required for feature specs. (Andy Lindeman)

Enhancements:

• Improve be_valid matcher for non-ActiveModel::Errors implementations (Ben Hamill)

Bug Fixes:

• Use __send__ rather than send to prevent naming collisions (Bradley Schaefer)
• Supports Rails 4.1. (Andy Lindeman)
• Routes are drawn correctly for anonymous controllers with abstract parents. (Billy Chan)
• Loads ActiveSupport properly to support changes in Rails 4.1. (Andy Lindeman)
• Anonymous controllers inherit from ActionController::Base if ApplicationController is not present. (Jon Rowe)
• Require rspec/collection_matchers when rspec/rails is required. (Yuji Nakayama)

3.0.0.beta1 / 2013-11-07

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Breaking Changes for 3.0.0:

• Extracts autotest and autotest-rails support to rspec-autotest gem. (Andy Lindeman)

2.99.0 / 2014-06-01

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No changes. Just taking it out of pre-release.

2.99.0.rc1 / 2014-05-18

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Deprecations

• Deprecates stub_model and mock_model in favor of the rspec-activemodel-mocks gem. (Thomas Holmes)
• Issue a deprecation to instruct users to configure config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location! during the upgrade process since spec type inference is opt-in in 3.0. (Jon Rowe)
• Issue a deprecation when described_class is accessed in a controller example group that has used the controller { } macro to generate an anonymous controller class, since in 2.x, described_class would return that generated class but in 3.0 it will continue returning the class passed to describe. (Myron Marston)

2.99.0.beta2 / 2014-02-17

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Deprecations:

• Deprecates the --webrat option to the scaffold and request spec generator (Andy Lindeman)
• Deprecates the use of Capybara::DSL (e.g., visit) in controller specs. It is more appropriate to use capybara in feature specs (spec/features) instead. (Andy Lindeman)

Bug Fixes:

• Use __send__ rather than send to prevent naming collisions (Bradley Schaefer)
• Supports Rails 4.1. (Andy Lindeman)
• Loads ActiveSupport properly to support changes in Rails 4.1. (Andy Lindeman)
• Anonymous controllers inherit from ActionController::Base if ApplicationController is not present. (Jon Rowe)

2.99.0.beta1 / 2013-11-07

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Deprecations:

• Deprecates autotest integration in favor of the rspec-autotest gem. (Andy Lindeman)

Enhancements:

• Supports Rails 4.1 and Minitest 5. (Patrick Van Stee)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes "warning: instance variable @orig_routes not initialized" raised by controller specs when --warnings are enabled. (Andy Lindeman)
• Where possible, check against the version of ActiveRecord, rather than Rails. It is possible to use some of rspec-rails without all of Rails. (Darryl Pogue)
• Explicitly depends on activemodel. This allows libraries that do not bring in all of rails to use rspec-rails. (John Firebaugh)

2.14.1 / 2013-12-29

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Bug Fixes:

• Fixes "warning: instance variable @orig_routes not initialized" raised by controller specs when --warnings are enabled. (Andy Lindeman)
• Where possible, check against the version of ActiveRecord, rather than Rails. It is possible to use some of rspec-rails without all of Rails. (Darryl Pogue)
• Supports Rails 4.1 and Minitest 5. (Patrick Van Stee, Andy Lindeman)
• Explicitly depends on activemodel. This allows libraries that do not bring in all of rails to use rspec-rails. (John Firebaugh)
• Use __send__ rather than send to prevent naming collisions (Bradley Schaefer)

2.14.0 / 2013-07-06

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Bug fixes

• Rake tasks do not define methods that might interact with other libraries. (Fujimura Daisuke)
• Reverts fix for out-of-order let definitions in controller specs after the issue was fixed upstream in rspec-core. (Andy Lindeman)
• Fixes deprecation warning when using expect(Model).to have(n).records with Rails 4. (Andy Lindeman)

2.14.0.rc1 / 2013-05-27

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Enhancements

• Prelimiarily support Rails 4.1 by updating adapters to support Minitest 5.0. (Andy Lindeman)

Bug fixes

• rake stats runs correctly when spec files exist at the top level of the spec/ directory. (Benjamin Fleischer)

2.13.2 / 2013-05-18

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Bug fixes

• let definitions may override methods defined in modules brought in via config.include in controller specs. Fixes regression introduced in 2.13. (Andy Lindeman, Jon Rowe)
• Code that checks Rails version numbers is more robust in cases where Rails is not fully loaded. (Andy Lindeman)

Enhancements

• Document how the spec/support directory works. (Sam Phippen)

2.13.1 / 2013-04-27

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Bug fixes

• View specs are no longer generated if no template engine is specified (Kevin Glowacz)
• ActionController::Base.allow_forgery_protection is set to its original value after each example. (Mark Dimas)
• patch is supported in routing specs. (Chris Your)
• Routing assertions are supported in controller specs in Rails 4. (Andy Lindeman)
• Fix spacing in the install generator template (Taiki ONO)

2.13.0 / 2013-02-23

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Enhancements

• be_valid matcher includes validation error messages. (Tom Scott)
• Adds cucumber scenario showing how to invoke an anonymous controller's non-resourceful actions. (Paulo Luis Franchini Casaretto)
• Null template handler is used when views are stubbed. (Daniel Schierbeck)
• The generated spec_helper.rb in Rails 4 includes a check for pending migrations. (Andy Lindeman)
• Adds rake spec:features task. (itzki)
• Rake tasks are automatically generated for each spec/ directory. (Rudolf Schmidt)

2.12.2 / 2013-01-12

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Bug fixes

• Reverts earlier fix where anonymous controllers defined the _routes method to support testing of redirection and generation of URLs from other contexts. The implementation ended up breaking the ability to refer to non-anonymous routes in the context of the controller under test.
• Uses assert_select correctly in view specs generated by scaffolding. (Andy Lindeman)

2.12.1 / 2013-01-07

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Bug fixes

• Operates correctly when ActiveRecord is only partially loaded (e.g., with older versions of Mongoid). (Eric Marden)
• expect(subject).to have(...).errors_on operates correctly for ActiveResource models where valid? does not accept an argument. (Yi Wen)
• Rails 4 support for routing specs. (Andy Lindeman)
• Rails 4 support for ActiveRecord::Relation and the =~ operator matcher. (Andy Lindeman)
• Anonymous controllers define _routes to support testing of redirection and generation of URLs from other contexts. (Andy Lindeman)

2.12.0 / 2012-11-12

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Enhancements

• Support validation contexts when using #errors_on (Woody Peterson)
• Include RequestExampleGroup in groups in spec/api

Bug fixes

• Add should and should_not to CollectionProxy (Rails 3.1+) and AssociationProxy (Rails 3.0). (Myron Marston)
• controller.controller_path is set correctly for view specs in Rails 3.1+. (Andy Lindeman)
• Generated specs support module namespacing (e.g., in a Rails engine). (Andy Lindeman)
• render properly infers the view to be rendered in Rails 3.0 and 3.1 (John Firebaugh)
• AutoTest mappings involving config/ work correctly (Brent J. Nordquist)
• Failures message for be_new_record are more useful (Andy Lindeman)

2.11.4 / 2012-10-14

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Capybara-2.0 integration support:

• include RailsExampleGroup in spec/features (necessary when there is no AR)
• include Capybara::DSL and Capybara::RSpecMatchers in spec/features

See https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/pull/809 and https://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-rails/file/Capybara.md for background.

2.11.1, .2, .3 were yanked due to errant documentation.

2.11.0 / 2012-07-07

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Enhancements

• The generated spec/spec_helper.rb sets config.order = "random" so that specs run in random order by default.
• rename render_template to have_rendered (and alias to render_template for backward compatibility)
• The controller spec generated with rails generate scaffold namespaced::model matches the spec generated with rails generate scaffold namespaced/model (Kohei Hasegawa)

Bug fixes

• "uninitialized constant" errors are avoided when using using gems like rspec-rails-uncommitted that define Rspec::Rails before rspec-rails loads (Andy Lindeman)

2.10.1 / 2012-05-03

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Bug fixes

• fix regression introduced in 2.10.0 that broke integration with Devise (https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/534)
• remove generation of helper specs when running the scaffold generator, as Rails already does this (Jack Dempsey)

2.10.0 / 2012-05-03

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Bug fixes

• render_views called in a spec can now override the config setting. (martinsvalin)
• Fix render_views for anonymous controllers on 1.8.7. (hudge, mudge)
• Eliminate use of deprecated process_view_paths
• Fix false negatives when using route_to matcher with should_not
• controller is no longer nil in config.before hooks
• Change request.path_parameters keys to symbols to match real Rails environment (Nathan Broadbent)
• Silence deprecation warnings in pre-2.9 generated view specs (Jonathan del Strother)

2.9.0 / 2012-03-17

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Enhancements

• add description method to RouteToMatcher (John Wulff)
• Run "db:test:clone_structure" instead of "db:test:prepare" if Active Record's schema format is ":sql". (Andrey Voronkov)

Bug fixes

• mock_model(XXX).as_null_object.unknown_method returns self again
• Generated view specs use different IDs for each attribute.

2.8.1 / 2012-01-04

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NOTE: there was a change in rails-3.2.0.rc2 which broke compatibility with stub_model in rspec-rails. This release fixes that issue, but it means that you'll have to upgrade to rspec-rails-2.8.1 when you upgrade to rails >= 3.2.0.rc2.

• Bug fixes
  • Explicitly stub valid? in stub_model. Fixes stub_model for rails versions >= 3.2.0.rc2.

2.8.0 / 2012-01-04

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• Enhancements
  • Eliminate deprecation warnings in generated view specs in Rails 3.2
  • Ensure namespaced helpers are included automatically (Evgeniy Dolzhenko)
  • Added cuke scenario documenting which routes are generated for anonymous controllers (Alan Shields)

2.8.0.rc2 / 2011-12-19

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• Enhancements

  • Add session hash to generated controller specs (Thiago Almeida)
  • Eliminate deprecation warnings about InstanceMethods modules in Rails 3.2

• Bug fixes

  • Stub attribute accessor after respond_to? call on mocked model (Igor Afonov)

2.8.0.rc1 / 2011-11-06

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• Enhancements

  • Removed unnecessary "config.mock_with :rspec" from spec_helper.rb (Paul Annesley)

• Changes

  • No API changes for rspec-rails in this release, but some internals changed to align with rspec-core-2.8

• rspec-core

• rspec-expectations

• rspec-mocks

2.7.0 / 2011-10-16

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• Enhancements

  • ActiveRecord::Relation can use the =~ matcher (Andy Lindeman)
  • Make generated controller spec more consistent with regard to ids (Brent J. Nordquist)
  • Less restrictive autotest mapping between spec and implementation files (José Valim)
  • require 'rspec/autorun' from generated spec_helper.rb (David Chelimsky)
  • add bypass_rescue (Lenny Marks)
  • route_to accepts query string (Marc Weil)

• Internal

  • Added specs for generators using ammeter (Alex Rothenberg)

• Bug fixes

  • Fix configuration/integration bug with rails 3.0 (fixed in 3.1) in which fixure_file_upload reads from ActiveSupport::TestCase.fixture_path and misses RSpec's configuration (David Chelimsky)
  • Support nested resource in view spec generator (David Chelimsky)
  • Define primary_key on class generated by mock_model("WithAString") (David Chelimsky)

2.6.1 / 2011-05-25

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This release is compatible with rails-3.1.0.rc1, but not rails-3.1.0.beta1

• Bug fixes
  • fix controller specs with anonymous controllers with around filters
  • exclude spec directory from rcov metrics (Rodrigo Navarro)
  • guard against calling prerequisites on nil default rake task (Jack Dempsey)

2.6.0 / 2011-05-12

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• Enhancements

  • rails 3 shortcuts for routing specs (Joe Fiorini)
  • support nested resources in generators (Tim McEwan)
  • require 'rspec/rails/mocks' to use mock_model without requiring the whole rails framework
  • Update the controller spec generated by the rails scaffold generator:
  • Add documentation to the generated spec
  • Use any_instance to avoid stubbing finders
  • Use real objects instead of mock_model
  • Update capybara integration to work with capy 0.4 and 1.0.0.beta
  • Decorate paths passed to [append|prepend]_view_paths with empty templates unless rendering views. (Mark Turner)

• Bug fixes

  • fix typo in "rake spec:statsetup" (Curtis Schofield)
  • expose named routes in anonymous controller specs (Andy Lindeman)
  • error when generating namespaced scaffold resources (Andy Lindeman)
  • Fix load order issue w/ Capybara (oleg dashevskii)
  • Fix monkey patches that broke due to internal changes in rails-3.1.0.beta1

2.5.0 / 2011-02-05

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• Enhancements

  • use index_helper instead of table_name when generating specs (Reza Primardiansyah)

• Bug fixes

  • fixed bug in which render_views in a nested group set the value in its parent group.
  • only include MailerExampleGroup when it is defined (Steve Sloan)
  • mock_model.as_null_object.attribute.blank? returns false (Randy Schmidt)
  • fix typo in request specs (Paco Guzman)

2.4.1 / 2011-01-03

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• Bug fixes
  • fixed bug caused by including some Rails modules before RSpec's RailsExampleGroup

2.4.0 / 2011-01-02

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• Enhancements

  • include ApplicationHelper in helper object in helper specs
  • include request spec extensions in files in spec/integration
  • include controller spec extensions in groups that use type: :controller
  • same for :model, :view, :helper, :mailer, :request, :routing

• Bug fixes

  • restore global config.render_views so you only need to say it once
  • support overriding render_views in nested groups
  • matchers that delegate to Rails' assertions capture ActiveSupport::TestCase::Assertion (so they work properly now with should_not in Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1)

• Deprecations

  • include_self_when_dir_matches

2.3.1 / 2010-12-16

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• Bug fixes
  • respond_to? correctly handles 2 args
  • scaffold generator no longer fails on autotest directory

2.3.0 / 2010-12-12

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• Changes
  • Generator no longer generates autotest/autodiscover.rb, as it is no longer needed (as of rspec-core-2.3.0)

2.2.1 / 2010-12-01

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• Bug fixes

  • Depend on railties, activesupport, and actionpack instead of rails (Piotr Solnica)
  • Got webrat integration working properly across different types of specs

• Deprecations

  • --webrat-matchers flag for generators is deprecated. use --webrat instead.

2.2.0 / 2010-11-28

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• Enhancements

  • Added stub_template in view specs

• Bug fixes

  • Properly include helpers in views (Jonathan del Strother)
  • Fix bug in which method missing led to a stack overflow
  • Fix stack overflow in request specs with open_session
  • Fix stack overflow in any spec when method_missing was invoked
  • Add gem dependency on rails ~> 3.0.0 (ensures bundler won't install rspec-rails-2 with rails-2 apps).

2.1.0 / 2010-11-07

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• Enhancements

  • Move errors_on to ActiveModel to support other AM-compliant ORMs

• Bug fixes

  • Check for presence of ActiveRecord instead of checking Rails config (gets rspec out of the way of multiple ORMs in the same app)

2.0.1 / 2010-10-15

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• Enhancements

  • Add option to not generate request spec (--skip-request-specs)

• Bug fixes

  • Updated the mock_[model] method generated in controller specs so it adds any stubs submitted each time it is called.
  • Fixed bug where view assigns weren't making it to the view in view specs in Rails-3.0.1. (Emanuele Vicentini)

2.0.0 / 2010-10-10

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• Enhancements

  • ControllerExampleGroup uses controller as the implicit subject by default (Paul Rosania)
  • autotest mapping improvements (Andreas Neuhaus)
  • more cucumber features (Justin Ko)
  • clean up spec helper (Andre Arko)
  • add assign(name, value) to helper specs (Justin Ko)
  • stub_model supports primary keys other than id (Justin Ko)
  • support choice between Webrat/Capybara (Justin Ko)
  • support specs for 'abstract' subclasses of ActionController::Base (Mike Gehard)
  • be_a_new matcher supports args (Justin Ko)

• Bug fixes

  • support T::U components in mailer and request specs (Brasten Sager)