I switched from Cucumber to Steak for several months and loved it. Getting away from english specification was a BIG win.

However, two weeks ago, I removed Steak entirely, and am now using pure RSpec for my integration tests.

If you look at the heart of Steak [1] you'll see it's nothing more than a couple aliases for existing RSpec methods. 'example' becomes 'scenario', and 'before' becomes 'background'. I'm all for accurate language, but I don't think switching a couple method names really changes anything important here.

Switching from Steak to pure RSpec was simply a matter of a global search and replace, and now I've got one less gem to think about.

[1] https://github.com/cavalle/steak/blob/master/lib/rspec-2/ste...