Hello everyone, Two weeks ago at BarCamp NYC, I put together a little addition to Test::Unit that I'm tentatively calling SpecUnit. It clocks in at 61 lines, is well tested, and adds nested contexts to Test::Unit. Install with 'sudo gem install spec-unit'. Give it a look and let me know what you think. Below is the short readme I put together. =Introduction SpecUnit is an extension to Test::Unit that allows tests to be grouped into contexts. The idea of contexts comes from rSpec, which is a BDD framework for Ruby. rSpec is a great testing framework, but I built SpecUnit out of the desire to make use of tools already in existence for Test::Unit and to provide a lightweight means of making use of contexts. =Usage To use SpecUnit, simply require 'spec-unit' require 'test/unit' require 'spec-unit' class TestBlob < Test::Unit::TestCase include SpecUnit def setup @object = Blob.new end context 'when empty' do def specify_should_be_empty assert @object.empty? end end context 'when has one item' do def setup @object.add(2) end def specify_has_length_of_one assert_equal 1, @object.length end end end As you can see above, contexts can be nested. Setups are run outside in, while teardowns are run inside out. There should be no namespace conflicts as the library is fairly well tested, but let me know if you find any. =Caveats I wrote this in a weekend, so there may be some things I didn't think to test in my tests. Also, there are probably a number of cool features I could add. Let me know if there are any you want, and I'll consider adding them. Submitting patches makes it much more likely that I'll implement your feature. =More Documentation Read the tests, let me know if they're terribly unreadable. I'll add some documentation to the SpecUnit module later. If you want to add documentation, please do. Send me a patch, and I will include it. =About Author:: Trotter Cashion (mailto:trotter / eastmedia.com) Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2006 Trotter Cashion License:: Distributed under the MIT License