RSpec 2.99.0 and 3.0.0 have been released!

Myron Marston

RSpec 2.99.0 and 3.0.0 have been released! RSpec 3 has tons of great new features. RSpec 2.99 is part of the recommended upgrade path for projects currently on RSpec 2.x.

RSpec 3 is the work of many, many people, and it never would have happened without the community contributing to it. Special thanks to:

• The RSpec core team: Aaron Kromer, Andy Lindeman, Bradley Schaefer, Jon Rowe, Sam Phippen and Xavier Shay. It’s fantastic to work with all of you.
• Yuji Nakayama, for creating transpec.
• The folks who stepped forward to maintain the extracted gems:
  • Peter Alfvin – rspec-its
  • Hugo Baraúna – rspec-collection_matchers
  • Thomas Holmes – rspec-activemodel-mocks
  • Abdelkader Boudih – rspec-autotest
• Everyone who contributed to RSpec 3. Their names are all listed below.
• Everyone who tried out the betas and the release candidate. Getting bug reports early, before 3.0 final was out, really helped us make it a solid release, so thank you.

The numbers

I thought it’d be fun to extract some stats from the git logs to get an idea of how much work went into RSpec 3. I put together a rake task to do this, and the raw numbers surprised me:

Across all repos:

• Total Commits: 4069
• Merged pull requests: 882
• 122 contributors: Aaron Blew, Aaron Kromer, AbuSabah, Adam Farhi, Adarsh Pandit, Adrian CB, Adrian Gonzalez, Alex Peattie, Alex Rothenberg, Alex Yaremyuk, Alexander Clark, Alexey Fedorov, Alexey Pisarenko, Andy Henson, Andy Lindeman, Andy Waite, Arthur Neves, Arthur Nogueira Neves, Ashish Dixit, Ben Hamill, Ben Hoskings, Ben Moss, Ben Orenstein, Billy, Bradley Schaefer, Brandon Turner, Brian Fontenot, Cezar Halmagean, Christof, Claudio B., Damian Galarza, Daniel Fone, Daniel Murphy, Darryl Pogue, David Chelimsky, David Dollar, David Long, Eloy Espinaco, Erik Michaels-Ober, Federico Ravasio, Florian Thomas, Fujimura Daisuke, Giovanni Cappellotto, Giuseppe Capizzi, Grant Hollingworth, Guilherme Carvalho, Hendy Tanata, Hugo Baraúna, Ivo Wever, Jakub Racek, Jared Norman, Jay Hayes, Jeff Wallace, Johannes / universa1, John Feminella, John Firebaugh, John Voloski, Jon Rowe, Jonathan del Strother, Josef Šimánek, Justin Coyne, Karthik Kastury, Katsuhiko Nishimra, Keiji, Kelly Stannard, Kenrick Chien, Lucas Mazza, Marc-Andre Lafortune, MasterLambaster, Matijs van Zuijlen, Matt Sanders, Matthew M. Boedicker, Mauricio Linhares, Michael Gee, Michael de Silva, Michi Huber, Myron Marston, Nerian, Nick DeLuca, Olle Jonsson, Oren Dobzinski, Paavo Leinonen, Parker Selbert, Paul Annesley, Pedro Gimenez, Pete Higgins, Peter Alfvin, Peter Inglesby, Postmodern, Prathamesh Sonpatki, Puneet Goyal, René Föhring, Reyes Yang, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas, Ryo Nakamura, Salimane Adjao Moustapha, Sam Phippen, Sergey Pchelincev, Stephen Best, Steve Richert, Stuart Hicks, Tay Ray Chuan, Thijs Wouters, Thomas Drake-Brockman, Thomas Holmes, Thomas Stratmann, Tim Cowlishaw, Tim Watson, Tom Stuart, Tom Ward, Travis Herrick, Vinicius Horewicz, Vipul A M, Xavier Shay, Yoshimi, Yuji Nakayama, lucapette, maxlinc, modocache, sanemat, thepoho, vanstee

rspec:

• Total Commits: 23
• Merged pull requests: 3
• 5 contributors: Aaron Kromer, Andy Lindeman, Jon Rowe, Josef Šimánek, Myron Marston

rspec-core:

• Total Commits: 1589
• Merged pull requests: 345
• 47 contributors: Aaron Kromer, Adam Farhi, Adrian CB, Alex Peattie, Alexander Clark, Alexey Fedorov, Andy Lindeman, Arthur Neves, Ashish Dixit, Ben Hoskings, Ben Moss, Bradley Schaefer, David Chelimsky, David Dollar, Federico Ravasio, Giuseppe Capizzi, Jay Hayes, John Feminella, Jon Rowe, Karthik Kastury, Keiji, Kelly Stannard, MasterLambaster, Matijs van Zuijlen, Matthew M. Boedicker, Michael de Silva, Michi Huber, Myron Marston, Nerian, Parker Selbert, Pete Higgins, Peter Alfvin, Postmodern, René Föhring, Ryo Nakamura, Sam Phippen, Sergey Pchelincev, Steve Richert, Tay Ray Chuan, Thomas Stratmann, Tom Stuart, Travis Herrick, Vipul A M, Xavier Shay, Yoshimi, Yuji Nakayama, thepoho

rspec-expectations:

• Total Commits: 924
• Merged pull requests: 191
• 41 contributors: Aaron Kromer, Adam Farhi, Adrian Gonzalez, Alexey Pisarenko, Andy Henson, Andy Lindeman, Ben Moss, Ben Orenstein, Bradley Schaefer, Brandon Turner, Claudio B., Damian Galarza, Daniel Fone, Daniel Murphy, David Chelimsky, Eloy Espinaco, Erik Michaels-Ober, Federico Ravasio, Hendy Tanata, Hugo Baraúna, Ivo Wever, Jared Norman, Jeff Wallace, John Voloski, Jon Rowe, Katsuhiko Nishimra, Kenrick Chien, Myron Marston, Nerian, Pedro Gimenez, Pete Higgins, Prathamesh Sonpatki, René Föhring, Reyes Yang, Sam Phippen, Thijs Wouters, Thomas Holmes, Xavier Shay, Yuji Nakayama, lucapette, modocache

rspec-mocks:

• Total Commits: 1036
• Merged pull requests: 249
• 36 contributors: Aaron Kromer, Adarsh Pandit, Andy Lindeman, Arthur Nogueira Neves, Ashish Dixit, Ben Moss, Bradley Schaefer, Cezar Halmagean, David Chelimsky, Federico Ravasio, Grant Hollingworth, Guilherme Carvalho, Jon Rowe, Jonathan del Strother, Justin Coyne, Marc-Andre Lafortune, Mauricio Linhares, Michael Gee, Michi Huber, Myron Marston, Nick DeLuca, Oren Dobzinski, Paul Annesley, Pete Higgins, René Föhring, Sam Phippen, Stephen Best, Stuart Hicks, Thomas Holmes, Tim Cowlishaw, Tom Ward, Vinicius Horewicz, Xavier Shay, Yuji Nakayama, maxlinc, sanemat

rspec-rails:

• Total Commits: 497
• Merged pull requests: 94
• 39 contributors: Aaron Blew, Aaron Kromer, AbuSabah, Alex Rothenberg, Alex Yaremyuk, Andy Lindeman, Andy Waite, Ben Hamill, Billy, Bradley Schaefer, Brian Fontenot, Christof, Darryl Pogue, David Long, Florian Thomas, Fujimura Daisuke, Giovanni Cappellotto, Jakub Racek, Johannes / universa1, John Firebaugh, John Voloski, Jon Rowe, Lucas Mazza, Matt Sanders, Myron Marston, Olle Jonsson, Paavo Leinonen, Peter Inglesby, Puneet Goyal, René Föhring, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas, Salimane Adjao Moustapha, Sam Phippen, Thomas Drake-Brockman, Thomas Holmes, Tim Watson, Xavier Shay, Yuji Nakayama, vanstee

Release Notes

These are just the changelogs for what’s changed since RC1. The full changelogs are available on github:

• rspec-core
• rspec-expectations
• rspec-mocks
• rspec-rails

rspec-core 2.99.0

Full Changelog

Bug Fixes:

• Fix BaseTextFormatter so that it does not re-close a closed output stream. (Myron Marston)
• Use RSpec::Configuration#backtrace_exclusion_patterns rather than the deprecated RSpec::Configuration#backtrace_clean_patterns when mocking with rr. (David Dollar)

rspec-core 3.0.0

Full Changelog

Bug Fixes:

• Fix BaseTextFormatter so that it does not re-close a closed output stream. (Myron Marston)
• Fix regression in metadata that caused the metadata hash of a top-level example group to have a :parent_example_group key even though it has no parent example group. (Myron Marston)

Enhancements:

• Alter the default spec_helper.rb to no longer recommend config.full_backtrace = true see #1536 for discussion. (Jon Rowe)

rspec-expectations 2.99.0

Full Changelog

Enhancements:

• Special case deprecation message for errors_on with rspec-rails to be more useful. (Aaron Kromer)

rspec-expectations 3.0.0

Full Changelog

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

rspec-mocks 2.99.0

Full Changelog

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

rspec-mocks 3.0.0

Full Changelog

Bug Fixes:

• Fix module prepend detection to work properly on ruby 2.0 for a case where a module is extended onto itself. (Myron Marston)
• Fix transfer_nested_constants option so that transferred constants get properly reset at the end of the example. (Myron Marston)
• Fix config.transfer_nested_constants = true so that you don’t erroneously get errors when stubbing a constant that is not a module or a class. (Myron Marston)
• Fix regression that caused double(:class => SomeClass) to later trigger infinite recursion. (Myron Marston)
• Fix bug in have_received(...).with(...).ordered where it was not taking the args into account when checking the order. (Myron Marston)
• Fix bug in have_received(...).ordered where it was wrongly considering stubs when checking the order. (Myron Marston)
• Message expectation matchers now show descriptions from argument matchers when their expectations aren’t met. (Jon Rowe)
• Display warning when encountering TypeError during instance method staging on 2.0.0-p195, suffers from https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8686 too. (Cezar Halmagean).

rspec-rails 2.99.0

Full Changelog

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

rspec-rails 3.0.0

Full Changelog

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)