[LRUG] RSpec 3.0 RC1 has been released

[Stephen Best]

It seems that Cucumber support hasn't quite caught up yet. The issue below
seems to be a blocker for me.

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/pull/666

This gives a little more background

https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/1480

Aside from the Cucumber issue I found upgrading easy.

Kudos for deprecating "should" syntax, I also can't wait to get that
"disable_monkey_patching!" mode switched on.

On 19 May 2014 16:43, Sam Phippen <samphippen at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> For those of you that don’t know me: I’m Sam Phippen, I’m a local rubyist
> and I sometimes help maintain RSpec as a member of the RSpec core team.
> I thought I’d let everyone know that RSpec 3 RC 1 has been released. If
> nobody finds any show-stopping bugs in RSpec 3 between now and 2 weeks,
> we’re
> planning on cutting the RC gem as the actual release! It would be very
> helpful if you could do the upgrade and see if anything breaks for you.
>
> To give a very brief overview of the recommended upgrade process, most
> apps should undergo the following series of changes:
>
> 1. Ensure your RSpec 2.xx suite is green.
> 2. Upgrade to RSpec 2.99 (see
> http://rubygems.org/gems/rspec/versions/2.99.0.rc1). The reason for RSpec
> 2.99s existence is as follows:
>     RSpec 3, being a major version has breaking changes relative to 2.xx.
> RSpec 2.99 will work with any 2.xx suite, but will issue warnings
>     For anything that won’t work on RSpec 3.0
> 3. Get warning free on RSpec 2.99
> 4. Upgrade to RSpec 3.0
>
> As I said above: it would be very useful if you could upgrade your
> existing spec suites to run on the RSpec 3.0 release candidate so that we
> can
> weasel out any bugs over the next two weeks. If you’d like any more
> in-depth help feel free to:
>
> * email the RSpec mailing list
> * hop in to #rspec on irc.freenode.net
> * email me back directly (I might not get to it as my inbox is always
> buried)
>
> Thanks in advance for helping us out if you do.
> —
> Sam Phippen
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