diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 50f8b79d..75c53643 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -42,10 +42,13 @@ end
 group :development, :test do
   gem 'fabrication'
   gem 'rspec-rails'
+  gem 'capybara'
   gem 'cucumber-rails', require: false
   gem "faker"
   gem 'pry'
   gem 'sqlite3'
+  
+  
 end
 
 group :production do
@@ -53,6 +56,7 @@ group :production do
 end
 
 group :test do
+  gem "simplecov", :require => false
   gem "mocha"
   gem "database_cleaner"
   gem "launchy"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 28e42aae..fef30cc9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 [hackety-hack.com][hh.com] is the web backend powering the collaborative features of [Hackety Hack][hh]. It is written in Rails 3 and continues to be under active development (see 'Helping Out'), the switch to Rails 3 happened quite recently so there's still lots to be done.
 
-## Helping Out ##
+###### Helping Out ###
 
 If you have any experience writing Rails apps, feel free to help out, we're open to pull requests as long as you follow a few conditions.
 
diff --git a/features/support/env.rb b/features/support/env.rb
index 07737733..a348b10b 100644
--- a/features/support/env.rb
+++ b/features/support/env.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,19 @@
 # newer version of cucumber-rails. Consider adding your own code to a new file 
 # instead of editing this one. Cucumber will automatically load all features/**/*.rb
 # files.
+#
+
+require 'simplecov'
+SimpleCov.start do
+coverage_dir ('public/publix')
+ #add_filter '/features/'
+ add_filter '/spec/'
+ add_filter '/config/'
+ add_filter '/lib/'
+ add_filter '/vendor/'
+ #add_filter '/app/'
+
+end
 
 require 'cucumber/rails'
 
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 79d1f541..629dc4e5 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
+require 'simplecov'
+SimpleCov.start do
+ coverage_dir('public/publix')
+#add_filter '/spec/'
+ add_filter '/config/'
+ add_filter '/lib/'
+ add_filter '/vendor/'
+ add_filter '/features/'
+end
+
 ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
 require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
 require 'rspec/rails'
 require 'database_cleaner'
+require 'capybara/rspec'
 
 # Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc,
 # in spec/support/ and its subdirectories.
@@ -28,4 +39,5 @@
   config.before(:each) { reset_email }
 
   config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
+  config.include Capybara::DSL 
 end