rspec-expectations adds should and should_not to every object and includes
RSpec::Matchers, a library of standard matchers.
The Cucumber features are the most comprehensive and up-to-date docs for end-users.
The RDoc provides additional information for contributors and/or extenders.
All of the documentation is open source and a work in progress. If you find it lacking or confusing, you can help improve it by submitting requests and patches to the rspec-expectations issue tracker.
gem install rspec # for rspec-core, rspec-expectations, rspec-mocks
gem install rspec-expectations # for rspec-expectations only
Matchers are objects used to compose expectations:
result.should eq("this value")
In that example, eq("this value") returns a Matcher object that
compares the actual result to the expected "this value".