Hello,
I try again to learn ruby and Im following now “Agile Web development in Rails 4”
I see that the author uses minitest to test models.
Is there any reason to use minitest instead of Rspec to test models and controllers.
Roelof
Both tools will do the job, but my guess is that minitest was selected for this because it is simpler to explain to new developers. In other words, the expressive DSL that makes rspec nice to use after you know what’s going on can also be confusing to people who’ve never encountered it before.
–Matt Jones
Minitest is basically now built in. It’s lighter, and easier to use.
Rails itself is tested in Minitest.
I found recently that when I wanted to write a Gem that interacted with parts of Rails, Minitest was easier because I could go off the Rails minitest examples.
Most large production apps I’ve worked on are tested in Rspec, which is by far the popular choice. I do find that over-use of “declarative-style” testing to be difficult to read. (I.e., when so many things are defined with “let” statements that you have to reverse engineer 6 methods just to figure out what calls what). Having said that, some people really like the declarative style of Rspec.
-Jason