Remarkable 4.0.0.alpha1

I finally got a Remarkable 4 alpha1 one out. Here is how to use it in your project:

gem install remarkable remarkable_activemodel remarkable_activerecord --pre

There is no 4.0.0.alpha1 release for remarkable_rails. Please upvote and comment this github issue if this is important to you.

To install:

# In Gemfiles
group :test do
   gem 'rspec'
   gem 'rspec-rails'
   gem 'remarkable', '>=4.0.0.alpha1'
   gem 'remarkable_activemodel', '>=4.0.0.alpha1'
   gem 'remarkable_activerecord', '>=4.0.0.alpha1'
end

and add this in your spec/spec_helper.rb

  Remarkable.include_matchers!(Remarkable::ActiveModel, Rspec::Core::ExampleGroup) 
  Remarkable.include_matchers!(Remarkable::ActiveRecord, Rspec::Core::ExampleGroup) 

Please note, you will need to have rspec 2.0.0.alpha7 to run this, either installed in system gems or in the bundle.

Caveats

While I ported as many of the features of Remarkable 3.3 over, there were some things that were dropped:

• support_attributes and passing attributes into a describe or context block no longer works. Rspec2 provides a metadata functionality allowing you to pass metadata in examples and example groups, and this conflicts with the semantics for support_attributes. Quite frankly, I never even knew this feature existed until I attempted this port; it isn't something I ever needed since I do not write models in a way where its behavior changes drastically based on state. When it does change, I typically write out the descriptions long-hand.
  
  If there are enough upvotes for this issue, or someone who cares enough decide to submit a patch, we can add this back in. Any implementation will use the Rspec2 metadata though.



• pending example groups are baked into Rspec2, so I took it out of Remarkable. The specs for the macros show they work.


• I took out the validations that were implemented in ActiveModel and moved them over to a brand-new, shiny remarkable_activemodel gem. You will need both remarkable_activemodel and remarkable_activerecord to use the validations. I plan on making the packaging better so you can easily just activate ActiveModel macros whenever you load in ActiveRecord models. This will allow people to use the standard validation macros against any ActiveModel::Validations-compliant models, which I expect the vast majority of the NoSQL and ActiveResource models to implement.

Please post any issues to the Remarkable issue tracker