Ok, so here I present you my first gem. It was created out of necessity and I hope to both be useful to the community and learn a lot in the process.

I would appreciate feedback very much, in the form of comments, code and/or beer! :-)

To install the matchers you only have to add the gem to your test group in Gemfile:

 group :test do
   gem 'thinking-sphinx-rspec-matchers'
 end

 describe "fields" do
   it { should index :name, :from => :client, :as => :client_name }
   it { should index :content }
 end

 describe "attributes" do
   it { should have_attribute :user_id, :as => :users }
 end

Field options

    :from
    :as
    :facet
    :sortable

Attribute Field options

    :as
    :facet

If you are feeling brave and want to test the gem, simply issue a bundle exec rspec. Contributions and enhancements and mostly welcomed!

[1] http://openmonkey.com/2009/07/19/thinking-sphinx-rspec-matchers/

[2] https://gist.github.com/21755

Thanks to Pal Allan from http://freelancing-gods.com/ for creating Thinking Sphinx!

Thanks to Tim Riley for the initial version of the matcher