spinach vs cucumber for BDD in rails

Question

I am starting on BDD. Was wondering which would be better to start with Cucumber or Spinach. My impression is that Spinach is new off the block. Look here

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Answer 1

DISCLAIMER: I'm a Spinach mantainer.

If you're starting with BDD I'd highly recommend two books:

• The RSpec book
• The Cucumber book

I think it's important to learn all the BDD and TDD process (outside-in etc..) and then choose the tool you feel more comfortable with.

Having said that, Cucumber has a huge community, but a lot of things are also aplicable to Spinach, since what they have in common is Gherkin.

As for flexibility of use I would say both are really flexible, but I (obviously) prefer Spinach as every feature it's just a Ruby class, where you can include modules, inherit from other classes and so on (this also applies to APIs integration).

I you want, you can take a look at the spinach-rails-demo and see how everything works.