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Message: [QUOTE="Brian Candler, post: 4635335"] Ah, now that's a really interesting way of thinking about examples/testing: in the form of an irb session. You can write your tests just by mucking about in irb, and when it makes sense, just paste the output somewhere. irb> foo = generate_foo => #<Foo:0xb7cd041c @attr1="hello", @attr2="world"> irb> foo.attr1 => "hello" irb> foo.attr2 => "world" Presumably you could avoid the fragile comparison on Object#inspect output by deleting it from the transcript. irb> foo = generate_foo ... irb> foo.attr1 => "hello" irb> foo.attr2 => "world" Writing something which parses that an (re)runs it to verify the output should be pretty straightforward. It can also handle the 'assert_raises' case nicely. irb> f.attr3 NoMethodError: undefined method `attr3' for ... Ara, how about it? :-) [/QUOTE]