Merge pull request #92 from rspec/3-5-0-beta1-release-post

Add the 3.5.0.beta1 release post.

Author: Sam Phippen

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+title: RSpec 3.5.0.beta1 has been released!
+author: Sam Phippen
+---
+
+RSpec 3.5.0.beta1 has just been released! This is a big release for us because
+it's the first release of RSpec we've published that has anything that could be
+described as approximating support for Rails 5.
+
+The purpose of this beta release is to enable people who are upgrading to Rails
+5 to check their existing RSpec suites with Rails 5. If you do find any problems
+with this release, let us know via GitHub, and we'll hopefully get everything
+fixed in time for the Rails 5 release proper.
+
+## Upgrading smoothly
+
+As was discussed at Railsconf this year, Rails "soft deprecated" controller
+tests in Rails 5. RSpec has been affected by being downstream of this, but
+fortunately, we were able to make the process relatively smooth for our users.
+
+If you have existing specs with `:type => :view` or `:type => :controller`
+you'll need to add [the Rails Controller Testing Gem](https://github.com/rails/rails-controller-testing)
+to your Gemfile. For the moment we recommend using the version from GitHub, but
+we hope that there will be a stable version on Rubygems before Rails 5 is released
+proper.
+
+Gemfile example:
+
+```ruby
+source "https://rubygems.org"
+
+gem "rails-controller-testing", :git => "https://github.com/rails/rails-controller-testing"
+gem "rspec-rails", "3.5.0.beta1"
+```
+
+## Summing up
+
+Since this is only a beta, I've kept this blog post nice and short. When 3.5.0
+final is released we'll do a full post with much more detail. In the mean time,
+there are a few people I'd like to say thanks to:
+
+ * The entire RSpec core team for their continued work on the project
+ * [Sean Griffin](https://twitter.com/sgrif), who personally spent a lot of time helping me with fixing up
+   RSpec's compatability with Rails 5
+ * [Andrew White](https://twitter.com/pixeltrix), who has also been helping me with RSpec's rails integration in
+   the past few weeks.
+ * [Cristiano Betta](https://twitter.com/cbetta) who quickly smoke tested the
+   release against one of his rails apps for me.
+
+This release was a huge amount of work for everyone involved, and I'm really
+glad we're able to get you something to test against Rails 5 ahead of it's
+release. We hope you enjoy, and do let us know if you've got any feedback on
+this release.