losers like this are why I quit using rails. well, that and the whole ungodly slowness thing. rails doesn't provide any facility for testing the stuff that is actually hard to test - the frontend javascript/flash/ui layer. it makes it easy to test stuff that shouldn't need testing.
Software that doesn't need testing - that doesn't exist I am afraid. The UI is a different ball game (and as browsers evolve it will continuously change), and there are tools out there to solve it in some way or another. With the Rails tests, at least you have confidence that your backend is correct which is probably 80% of the battle. Also, the value of automated tests in general is to give you confidence that the s…
And with the apps I've worked on, about 80% of the battle was the UI. The backend was usually pretty simple data storage. That could be because my career has been largely UI-centric, but there are certainly apps out there where the UI code is more complex than the computation itself.