Fair. I can definitely appreciate the DSL argument. Rails has a rickety enough learning curve as it is, and introducing rspec at the outset is certainly debatab

Fair. I can definitely appreciate the DSL argument. Rails has a rickety enough learning curve as it is, and introducing rspec at the outset is certainly debatable. For what it's worth, I would definitely not consider the rspec syntax in that Hartl snippet to be a particularly legible example. The code provided in another comment is a much better representation of good style, IMHO.