gistfile1.txt

What is a gist?  I dunno but maybe it's like a blog.  

Getting rspec set up for my latest project here at INM United.  The following applies only to a brand new project, not an upgrade or retrofitting of rspec.  Altho it may apply to them too, I just don't know.  
required reading - 
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2007/05/14/an-introduction-to-rspec-part-i/

gem install rspec
gem install rspec-rails

to generate the rspec stuff, cd to your project directory and 

script/generate rspec

then generate your test database 

RAILS_ENV=test rake db:create

now 

rake spec 

should work!  (assuming you've created /spec/models/xxx_spec.rb )

At the top of that file you need to include the spec helper file script/generate rspec generated.  (why is this not work out the box?)  probably because i didn't script/generate rspec_model ...

require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper')

I tried 

require 'user' 

but that didn't work. 

rspactor doesn't work with the latest release of rspec, so I am using the builtin thingie autospec.

do the stuff here http://wiki.github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/spec_server-autospec-nearly-pure-bdd-joy which is a few minimal modifications to your test environment

(you'll need to install zentest, which isn't mentioned above)
gem install ZenTest

and you're off.  

rake spec:server:start
script/autospec

no growl integration?  Boo!  Ah well. I'm sure there's lots i've left out and more i need to learn but hopefully this will be enough to get me started next time i have to roll rspec out on a greenfield project :D