A while back I gave a talk at the Sydney Rails Group about Hornsby, my plugin for example based modeling. I always meant to release it, but as it got a work out it never really gave me the satisfaction I craved.

Recently, there was an Err post about layering a DSL over fixture scenarios. The idea of an expressive DSL for setting up test or spec data was super, but I had trouble getting it to work with RSpec. Oh and fixtures? Why cling to these much maligned giblets of yaml?

So here’s Hornsby, reborn: A Scenario Builder without the fixture pain.