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From the bottom of an automated acceptance tests in my current project.

# check the results
results.amount.should.be 360.27

RSpec will rock your world. If you've been hesitating to give it a try because it is such a radical departure from the xunit style, try just using its expectations features to give your tests a much more readable DSLish flair. The best part is watching how happy your non-technical stakeholders get because they understand the code you're writing for them.