= Remarkable
 
You can read this file nicely formatted at the Rubyforge project page:
 
  http://remarkable.rubyforge.org/
 
== Description
 
Remarkable is a framework for rspec matchers that supports macros and I18n. It's
constituted of three pieces:
 
* Remarkable: the framework with helpers, DSL, I18n and rspec features;
 
* Remarkable ActiveRecord: a collection of matchers for ActiveRecord. It
  supports all ActiveRecord validations, associations and some extra matchers.
 
* Remarkable Rails: a collection of matchers for ActionController. It also
  includes MacroStubs, which is a clean DSL for stubbing your controller methods.
 
In each folder above, you can find a README more detailed description of each piece.
 
== Why use Remarkable for Rails?
 
* The only one with matchers for all ActiveRecord validations, with support to
  all options (except :on and the option :with in validates_format_of);
 
* Matchers for all ActiveRecord associations. The only one which supports all
  these options:
 
    :through, :source, :source_type, :class_name, :foreign_key, :dependent,
    :join_table, :uniq, :readonly, :validate, :autosave, :counter_cache, :polymorphic
 
  Plus SQL options:
 
    :select, :conditions, :include, :group, :having, :order, :limit, :offset
 
  Besides in Remarkable 3.0 matchers became much smarter. Whenever :join_table
  or :through is given as option, it checks if the given table exists. Whenever
  :foreign_key or :counter_cache is given, it checks if the given column exists;
 
* ActionController matchers:
 
    :assign_to, :filter_params, :redirect_to, :render_with_layout, :respond_with, 
    :render_template, :route, :set_session and :set_the_flash;
 
* Macro stubs: make your controllers specs easier to main, more readable and DRY;
 
* Tests and more tests. We have a huge tests suite ready to run and tested in
  Rails 2.1.2, 2.2.2 and 2.3.2;
 
* I18n and great documentation.
 
* It has your style. You can choose between:
 
    1) it { should validate_numericality_of(:age).greater_than(18).only_integer }
 
    2) it { should validate_numericality_of(:age, :greater_than => 18, :only_integer => true) }
 
    3) should_validate_numericality_of :age, :greater_than => 18, :only_integer => true
 
    4) should_validate_numericality_of :age do |m|
         m.only_integer
         m.greater_than 18
         # Or: m.greater_than = 18
       end
 
Remarkable Rails requires rspec >= 1.2.0 and rspec-rails >= 1.2.0.
 
== Install on Rails
 
Install the gem:
 
  sudo gem install remarkable_rails
 
This will install remarkable, remarkable_activerecord and remarkable_rails gems.
 
Inside Rails you need to require just this gem. If you are using ActiveRecord,
it will automatically require the remarkable_activerecord gem.
 
== Rails 2.3
 
In Rails 2.3, in order to rspec load properly, you have to use this configuration
on your config/environments/test.rb
 
  config.gem "rspec",            :lib => false
  config.gem "rspec-rails",      :lib => false
  config.gem "remarkable_rails", :lib => false
 
And then require remarkable inside your spec_helper.rb, after "spec/rails":
 
  require 'spec/rails'
  require 'remarkable_rails'
 
This is the safest way to avoid conflicts.
 
Users who are upgrading to Remarkable 3.0, should not find any problem if their
tests are running without deprecation warnings.
 
== Developers
 
If you are developing matchers, for example hpricot matchers, you need to install
only the remarkable "core" gem:
 
  sudo gem install remarkable
 
If you stumble into any problem or have doubts while building your matchers,
please drop us a line. We are currently searching for people who wants to join
us and provide matchers for Datamapper, Sequel, Sinatra and all other possible
options. :)
 
== Browse the documentation
 
Remarkable:
  http://remarkable.rubyforge.org/core/
 
Remarkable ActiveRecord:
  http://remarkable.rubyforge.org/activerecord/
  http://remarkable.rubyforge.org/activerecord/classes/Remarkable/ActiveRecord/Matchers.html
 
Remarkable Rails:
  http://remarkable.rubyforge.org/rails/
  http://remarkable.rubyforge.org/rails/classes/Remarkable/ActionController/Matchers.html
 
== More information
 
Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/remarkable-core
Bug tracking: http://github.com/carlosbrando/remarkable/issues
 
== LICENSE
 
All projects are under MIT LICENSE.