Is there a way I can write something like a shared behaviour for all views that just checks the page responds with a 200 status and has a title, meta tags, and an h1? Here''s an idea for a shared behaviour (that only applies if I set views to use it manually with it_should_behave_like "a standard layout"): describe "a standard layout", :shared => true do it "should have meta tags" do do_render response.should have_tag("meta") end it "should have an h1 tag" do do_render response.should have_tag("h1") end end Note that this also sucks because I currently have to define a do_render that calls render with a stringified name of the view I''m spec-ing. I also get the feeling that I might want to split this out into a shared behaviour for controllers that checks if all of its pages respond with a 200 (like a spider-crawling thing) and the rest should be in a view spec. I''ve got a feeling this would go in spec_helper.rb, but I''m not sure how to set it up for all views and controllers. What''s the simplest way? Thanks, Edward