Since there''s no real documentation for stories yet, and since none of the blog posts about it ever show it being run, I thought some other newbie might find this useful information when they''re Googling: You don''t run RSpec stories with spec! You run them with ruby. For instance, in Ben Mabey''s "animals" tutorial, at: http://www.benmabey.com/2008/02/04/rspec-plain-text-stories-webrat-chunky-bacon/ you run the example stories with ruby stories/animals_without_webrat.rb NOT spec stories/animals_without_webrat.rb I imagine this is in the screencasts, but I''m working with a developer who has no broadband, so I''ve been reading more than watching... So, yeah. Carry on.