require File.expand_path('../../../spec_helper', __FILE__) require 'date' describe "Date.today" do it "returns a Date object" do Date.today.should be_kind_of Date end it "sets Date object to the current date" do today = Date.today now = Time.now (now - today.to_time).should be_close(0.0, 24 * 60 * 60) end end