The specs were moved out of the main distribution as they include a custom rails root with external references and are not needed by most people anyway.
If you want to execute the specs, go to the active_acl plugin directory. Then check out git://github.com/popel/active_acl_plus_spec.git to the ‘spec’ directory.
You can test different environments by setting RAILS_ENV before. Look to database.example for possible setups and copy it to database.yml for changes. Then use ‘rake spec’ from inside the plugin directory.
If you have questions about the setup for my tests, take a look at