[mattvanhorn]

I don't find implementing the tests very difficult at all - but I am comfortable with regular expressions, and ruby.

It's no more burden to write step definitions than it is to write RSpec directly. I use SOLID OOP to write my tests, most of the logic lives in regular old methods, and my steps look like:

  Then 'the current subscription payment date should be tomorrow' do
    verify_next_payment_date(Date.today + 1)
  end

Since I start with the Gherkin file, I type less than 10 keystrokes to make the step.