Announcing minitest-rails

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Post by tehviking » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 7:26 PM UTC

Re: Announcing minitest-rails

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Post by phaedryx » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 7:38 PM UTC

First thing I wondered about was integration testing with capybara, looks like there is a companion get for it: https://github.com/blowmage/minitest-rails-capybara

Re: Announcing minitest-rails

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Post by zuu » Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 12:10 AM UTC

I'm a bit confused as to why this exists? What is wrong with existing test frameworks?

Re: Announcing minitest-rails

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Post by blowmage » Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 1:58 AM UTC

zuu wrote: post #3

I'm a bit confused as to why this exists? What is wrong with existing test frameworks?

Nothing is wrong with Test::Unit or Rspec or any other testing framework. I happen to like Minitest and want to use it in my Rails app. Also, the testing infrastructure in Rails 4 is built on Minitest and so minitest-rails enables its use in Rails 3.

I dislike where Rails places the tests by default, so I wanted something to support a more discoverable structure.

Its a testament to how Rails is architected that its to easy to plug in an entirely new testing framework. Yay Rails.

Re: Announcing minitest-rails

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Post by phaedryx » Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 6:07 AM UTC

zuu wrote: post #3

I'm a bit confused as to why this exists? What is wrong with existing test frameworks?

I like it because it is simple, fast, and straightforward. It also has nice additional features like benchmarks and mocks.

It's a step up from test unit and less "magical" than rspec.