diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 50f8b79d..b20cfde0 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -42,17 +42,21 @@ 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
-  gem 'pg' # ugh heroku
+  gem 'pg' # ugh heroku..
 end
 
 group :test do
+  gem "simplecov", :require => false
   gem "mocha"
   gem "database_cleaner"
   gem "launchy"
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 7ffccfa5..8424216a 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ GEM
       ffi (~> 1.0.9)
       multi_json (~> 1.0.4)
       rubyzip
+    simplecov (0.7.1)
+      multi_json (~> 1.0)
+      simplecov-html (~> 0.7.1)
+    simplecov-html (0.7.1)
     slop (2.4.3)
     sprockets (2.0.4)
       hike (~> 1.2)
@@ -234,6 +238,7 @@ PLATFORMS
 DEPENDENCIES
   bson_ext
   cancan
+  capybara
   coffee-rails (~> 3.1.0)
   cucumber-rails
   database_cleaner
@@ -257,6 +262,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   sass-rails (~> 3.1.0)
   semantic_menu!
   simple_form!
+  simplecov
   sqlite3
   uglifier
   unicorn
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..9a68a912 100644
--- a/features/support/env.rb
+++ b/features/support/env.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,20 @@
 # It is recommended to regenerate this file in the future when you upgrade to a 
 # 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.
+# 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..94e2daa5 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,10 +1,21 @@
+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.
+# in spec/support/ and its subdirectories
 Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}
 
 RSpec.configure do |config|
@@ -28,4 +39,5 @@
   config.before(:each) { reset_email }
 
   config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
+  config.include Capybara::DSL 
 end