I’m still using fixtures. Shame, I know. Why I do use them instead of Factory Girl or other solution like that? Well, fixtures can be much more closer to real data than mocks from Factory. How come, You ask? Fixtures are imaginary data exactly like mocks from other sources! My answer is: that depends how …
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Test benchmark – useful gem for Rails tests
Doing TDD You need to know which tests are making whole suite slower. If time used by rake test becomes too long, You may be tempted to skip running tests… Waiting for them to complete becomes suddenly burden on Your way to next task. So, when You need to optimize Your test suite, test_benchmark is …
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How did I overcome TDD fear
I was using Rails for over two years, but I still was not truly converted to TDD. There was no special reason for it, I have tried few times with my own projects to take TDD approach. And I was quickly returning to plain, old code crunching. Why? Maybe I haven’t approached TDD with enough …
Did I just cross Rubicon?
First time I did write test first, then code for that. Revision 543, Run-N-Share. Usually I wrote tests after I have working piece of code, as a mean to provide some sanity check when making further changes. Does it mean I just crossed TDD border? :)))
Shoulda You abandon Test::Unit?
(c) Alisdair I was not very keen on RSpec. Well to be honest I had some problems with writing tests at all. Fortunately old and bad times are gone. I mean writing test is now much more natural and has become second nature. That way I don’t need to force myself to write them. You …