mox
Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir (by dashbitco)
plug_cowboy
Plug adapter for the Cowboy web server (by elixir-plug)
| mox | plug_cowboy | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 2 | |
| 1,289 | 229 | |
| 0.9% | 0.9% | |
| 6.0 | 4.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | 4 days ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mox
Posts with mentions or reviews of mox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
- Dealing with random number in tests
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
Mox helps get around these issues by ensuring explicit contracts. Read Mocks and Explicit Contracts for more details.
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How to ignore a child of a Supervisor not being able to start during tests?
In order to do this you may use mock (which is simple to use), mox (they have pretty compelling arguments why not to mock traditionally), or specifically for http requests, bypass.
- Como testes ajudam a melhorar o design do código?
- Elixir: Testando chamadas de uma API externa
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8 Common Causes of Flaky Tests in Elixir
Your options are mock ets/persistent_term — after all, we don't need to test that these things do what they say (Erlang does that for us!) — or have the tests run synchronously. Prefer the former! Mox is a great choice for this sort of work.
plug_cowboy
Posts with mentions or reviews of plug_cowboy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
This one is interesting. Since plug and cowboy make it really easy to roll out an HTTP server, instead of mocking out the HTTP Client, we can start our own server during tests and respond with stubs instead.
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Criando serviço de envio de e-mail com ELIXIR!🔮
plug_cowboy: Uma implementação do Cowboy para o Elixir.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mox and plug_cowboy you can also consider the following projects:
mock - Mocking library for Elixir language
cowboy - Small, fast, modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
email-elixir - Servidor HTTP que envia e-mail
ex_machina - Create test data for Elixir applications
mocha - Mocha is a mocking and stubbing library for Ruby
patch - Ergonomic Mocking for Elixir
mimic - A mocking library for Elixir
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules
poison - An incredibly fast, pure Elixir JSON library
ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
bamboo_smtp - An SMTP adapter for Bamboo.