Announcing minitest-rails

http://blowmage.com/2012/07/10/announcing-minitest-rails

by tehviking • 14 years ago

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phaedryx2• 14 years ago

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

zuu• 14 years ago

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

blowmage• 14 years ago

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.

phaedryx2• 14 years ago

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.

Announcing minitest-rails

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