Also you are correct the account.rb should sit in a lib folder, outside of the Stories directory. If you look at how Rails integrates Stories, it loads up the library files using the Story helper. This helper gets this reference from the config/environment.rb file.

However my examples are pretty simple with only one library. Therefore it is easier to understand if it is in the same directory.

Good luck, Ben Emson…

This is trivial but in the example “if I interpret things correctly” this statement: require File.join(File.dirname(FILE), “../account”) assumes that account.rb is in the story directory. Is that a best practice or would it be better placed in a lib folder somewhere?

I had a minor problem with Account class, though, which should probably be initialized like this:

def initialize(amount)
    @balance = amount.to_f
end

I took some of your code and wrote some rake tasks to make it even simpler, all you need to do is create the stories/foo_story.txt and run the scaffolding, and it’ll go ahead and pull out the steps and create a runner file

http://gist.github.com/5516

What’s there now looks very little like what was there when I joined the team, but it has been a pretty significant community effort to get there. Check out our contributor page: http://rspec.info/community/