I don’t like Maven at all but sometimes depending of the project and the people you need to use this. After playing with RSpec I stop considering any Java language framework acceptable for testing so for this project I’m working on right now I needed to find a solution that could integrate RSpec with Maven.

After googling I found this post from Bob McWhirter where he presented a official rspec-maven-plugin. I tried to use it but it wasn’t working so I forked it, fixed it and changed some things.

The forked version of rspec-maven-plugin is at GitHub and to use it you should:

install the plugin in the local repository (this is necessary only one time):

git clone git://github.com/dcrec1/rspec-maven-plugin.git
cd rspec-maven-plugin
mvn install

configure your project’s pom.xml adding this:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>rspec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>test</id>
            <phase>test</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>spec</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

set the JRUBY_HOME system variable, for example:

export JRUBY_HOME=/opt/jruby-1.1.6/

The plugin will run in the test phase of the Maven build cycle.

Happy testing!