As per a discussion on the mailing list [1], Evgeniy Dolzhenko suggested that if we were going to have aliases, it would be optimal to have a change that introduced the aliases of :example, and :group, to parallel the existing :suite alias. I''ve created a pull request that does this. It is here: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/pull/297 [1] http://groups.google.com/group/rspec/browse_thread/thread/26ea96043f46b3b6 ~ jf -- John Feminella Principal Consultant, BitsBuilder LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnxf SO: http://stackoverflow.com/users/75170/