Rails - Apr 2011 - [rspec-rails] Is it bad form to use spec/requests/*_spec.rb for integration tests?

So I wanted to cook up a quick integration test for something, and I''m
using rspec.  I personally just don''t like Cucumber - just a personal
preference, not a slam to the test framework at all - and wanted to
stick to just pure rspec.  So I dumped a quick spec file in spec/
reqests and ran it, and of course everything works.

But is this considered bad form, or a less-than-good practice?  I''ve
never written a "request spec" before, so I''m probably
mis-using it,
but I''d sure like to hear of better ways to do an integration test
under rspec where I can just run something like ''rake
spec:integration'' (which doesn''t exist by default).  This was
the best
I could do in a pinch, but wouldn''t mind hearing some feedback on a
better way to do it in the future - WITHOUT cucumber, selenium,
webrat, capbybara, etc. etc. ;-)

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http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/acceptance-testing-using-capybaras-new-rspec-dsl/

<http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/acceptance-testing-using-capybaras-new-rspec-dsl/>A
lot of people prefer RSpec for integration testing too. You only have to
deal one test framework RSpec for all your testing.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Phoenix Rising
<polarisrising-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>wrote:
> So I wanted to cook up a quick integration test for something, and
I''m
> using rspec.  I personally just don''t like Cucumber - just a
personal
> preference, not a slam to the test framework at all - and wanted to
> stick to just pure rspec.  So I dumped a quick spec file in spec/
> reqests and ran it, and of course everything works.
>
> But is this considered bad form, or a less-than-good practice? 
I''ve
> never written a "request spec" before, so I''m probably
mis-using it,
> but I''d sure like to hear of better ways to do an integration test
> under rspec where I can just run something like ''rake
> spec:integration'' (which doesn''t exist by default).  This
was the best
> I could do in a pinch, but wouldn''t mind hearing some feedback on
a
> better way to do it in the future - WITHOUT cucumber, selenium,
> webrat, capbybara, etc. etc. ;-)
>
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