--- title: Shoulda 4.0.1 - the lean and mean release teaser: tags: news,web,ruby,testing,open source,shoulda author: Tammer Saleh published_on: 2008-03-03 --- [![look at that drool][drool]][more-drool] Shoulda is a great tool for cleaning up your tests, but there was always some dirt under the hood that was keeping me up at night. I don't want to just [move complexity around][shuffle] - I want to remove it entirely. A [recent change] in edge rails forced me to get off my butt and do that. So everyone give a warm hello to the latest [Shoulda gem](https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda). It now uses a Context class in the backend, prints out `should_eventually` tests in a clear way, names the bare shouldas nicely, and fixes a few small bugs. I also took the opportunity to fix some of the outstanding issues in the [shoulda rails plugin](https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda) (with a lot of great help from the community). So grab the latest plugin and have some fun: piston import https://svn.thoughtbot.com/plugins/shoulda/tags/rel-4.0.1 vendor/plugins/shoulda Also, [please let us know][tracker] if you find any bugs or issues. [![Politiquotes]](http://politiquotes.org) [politiquotes]: http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2008-3-3-politiquotes_1.jpg "Politiquotes" **Shameless self promotion**: While I'm in the blogging mood, I'd like to feature a small over the weekends app that I've been working on with some other thoughtbotters: [Politiquotes](http://politiquotes.org) - Get your quote on! [drool]: http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2008-3-3-baby.jpg "look at that drool" [more-drool]: https://flickr.com/photos/robillardfamily/119635448/ [recent change]: http://tammer.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5807/tickets/12-rails-2-0-change-breaks-shoulda [shuffle]: http://www.klankboomklang.com/2007/10/26/class-methods-part-ii-annotations/ [tracker]: http://tammer.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5807-shoulda/tickets Visit our [Open Source page](https://thoughtbot.com/open-source) to learn more about our team's contributions.