diff --git a/motion/ruby_motion_query/stylers/ui_text_view_styler.rb b/motion/ruby_motion_query/stylers/ui_text_view_styler.rb
index f44dba4..e291018 100644
--- a/motion/ruby_motion_query/stylers/ui_text_view_styler.rb
+++ b/motion/ruby_motion_query/stylers/ui_text_view_styler.rb
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ module RubyMotionQuery
       def text_color ; view.textColor ; end
       def text_color=(v) ; view.textColor = v ; end
       alias :color :text_color
+      alias :color= :text_color=
 
     end
   end
diff --git a/spec/stylers/ui_text_view_styler_spec.rb b/spec/stylers/ui_text_view_styler_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..062880e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/stylers/ui_text_view_styler_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+describe 'stylers/ui_text_view' do
+  class SyleSheetForUIViewStylerTests < RubyMotionQuery::Stylesheet
+    def ui_text_view_kitchen_sink(st)
+    st.text = 'foo'
+    st.font = font.system(12)
+    st.text_color= color.red
+    end
+
+    def ui_text_view_attributed_string(st)
+      st.attributed_text = NSAttributedString.alloc.initWithString("RMQ")
+    end
+  end
+
+  before do
+    @vc = UIViewController.alloc.init
+    @vc.rmq.stylesheet = SyleSheetForUIViewStylerTests
+    @view_klass = UITextView
+  end
+
+  behaves_like "styler"
+
+  it 'should apply a style with every UITextViewStyler wrapper method' do
+    view = @vc.rmq.append(@view_klass, :ui_text_view_kitchen_sink).get
+
+    view.tap do |v|
+      view.text.should == "foo"
+      view.font.should == UIFont.systemFontOfSize(12)
+      view.textColor.should == UIColor.redColor
+    end
+  end
+
+  it "applies an attributed string" do
+    view = @vc.rmq.append(@view_klass, :ui_text_view_attributed_string).get
+
+    view.tap do |v|
+      v.text.should == 'RMQ'
+    end
+  end
+
+  it "can also set the color using the 'color' alias" do
+    view = @vc.rmq.append(@view_klass, :ui_text_view_kitchen_sink).get
+
+    rmq(view).style do |st|
+      st.color = rmq.color.green
+    end
+
+    view.tap do |v|
+      view.textColor.should == UIColor.greenColor
+    end
+  end
+end