RSpec VS R Spec

Compare RSpec vs R Spec and see what are their differences.

RSpec

RSpec meta-gem that depends on the other components (by rspec)

R Spec

A minimalist RSpec clone with all the essentials. [Moved to: https://github.com/cyril/r_spec-clone.rb] (by cyril)
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RSpec R Spec
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2,867 16
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0.0 0.0
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Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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RSpec

Posts with mentions or reviews of RSpec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-15.
  • Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow,…) Always Failed with UI Test Automation?
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Sep 2022
    RSpec is the most popular “Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby”. RSpec v3.8.0 alone has over 193 million downloads on RubyGems. While RSpec may also be used for unit or integration tests, its download count is quite impressive. As a comparison, the most-downloaded Cucumber v3.1.2 is merely 8.8 million.
  • 10 Awesome Ruby Gems for Ruby on Rails Web Development
    7 projects | dev.to | 21 Aug 2021
    RSpec
  • Need help regarding ruby install on Mac
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Jun 2021
    pry and rspec are gems. You had at least 3 rubies (system, rbenv, rvm), and each ruby puts its gems in a different folder. Your rspec might be in a folder for rbenv's ruby. If you switched to rvm's ruby, then bundle exec rspec would fail because rvm's ruby can't find rbenv's gems.
  • Introducing a new RSpec
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Jun 2021
    I am sad that you are warning it this way. Far be it from me to create confusion in the community. To rule out ambiguities, I take this opportunity to remind you that the gem of this project is not rspec, it is r_spec, and this project is totally independent of rspec.info.
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Jun 2021
    this project is not  rspec ](https://rubygems.org/gems/rspec, it is  r_spec ](https://rubygems.org/gems/r_spec
  • Building Jekyll-Twitch, the gem
    8 projects | dev.to | 1 Apr 2021
    RSpec This is my favorite testing gem. I love how readable and well-organized the tests are.

R Spec

Posts with mentions or reviews of R Spec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-24.
  • Introducing a new RSpec
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Jun 2021
    and this project is totally independent of rspec.info.
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Jun 2021
    I am sad that you are warning it this way. Far be it from me to create confusion in the community. To rule out ambiguities, I take this opportunity to remind you that the gem of this project is not rspec, it is r_spec, and this project is totally independent of rspec.info.
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Jun 2021
    Read more on the RSpec clone page or in the code.
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Jun 2021
    this project is not  rspec ](https://rubygems.org/gems/rspec, it is  r_spec ](https://rubygems.org/gems/r_spec
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Jun 2021
    Tonight, I am announcing the release of RSpec clone 1.0.0, a minimalist reimplementation of RSpec to enforce the guidelines and best practices outlined in the community RSpec style guide. This clone includes most of RSpec's DSL to express expected outcomes with no magical powers.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RSpec and R Spec you can also consider the following projects:

minitest - minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.

shoulda-matchers - Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

Cucumber - A home for issues that are common to multiple cucumber repositories

Bacon - a small RSpec clone

Spinach - Spinach is a BDD framework on top of Gherkin.

RR - RR is a test double framework that features a rich selection of double techniques and a terse syntax. ⛺

Capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications

WebMock - Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.

timecop - A gem providing "time travel", "time freezing", and "time acceleration" capabilities, making it simple to test time-dependent code. It provides a unified method to mock Time.now, Date.today, and DateTime.now in a single call.

Test::Unit - test-unit

Selenium WebDriver - A browser automation framework and ecosystem.