Reading The Rspec book is a lot like testing itself. A bit of a chore, but in the end you hopefully are better off for it. Additionally, the book covers much more than Rspec, and focuses greatly on behavior-driven development and Cucumber. Finally it is straight from the horse’s mouth, as many of the authors …

• Nested examples and progressive setup are a trade off between DRY and readability

Referencing a bug report in an example via pending

describe "functionality" do
  it "should do something" do
    pending("bug report #78") do
        xyz.function()
    end
  end
end

What is nice here is that …