ex_machina VS blacksmith

Compare ex_machina vs blacksmith and see what are their differences.

ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
Testing Elixir factory-definitions Factories
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blacksmith

Data generation framework for Elixir (by batate)
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ex_machina blacksmith
2 1
1,871 194
0.3% -
6.8 0.0
3 months ago over 1 year ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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ex_machina

Posts with mentions or reviews of ex_machina. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.
  • Test Data Libraries for Elixir
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2023
    The factory library ExMachina created by Thoughbot uses function names and generates an atom used to call factories. For example:
  • How to write test cases for databse related functions
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 5 Nov 2021
    The well known FactoryBot (FactoryGirl) from rails has a pretty good equivalent in Phoenix as ExMachina (https://github.com/thoughtbot/ex_machina) and does the job really well (thoughtbot is a pretty good and stable contributor too, so a nice Omakase plug-in!)

blacksmith

Posts with mentions or reviews of blacksmith. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-05.
  • How to write test cases for databse related functions
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 5 Nov 2021
    Generating the data structs for the views can be automated using libraries like Faker and Blacksmith - and honestly writing your own generators is a fun and easy exercise in really understanding your data and how it's manipulated (which I would argue is critical to writing clean software).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ex_machina and blacksmith you can also consider the following projects:

faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.

factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.

setup_tag - Use tags to mix and match your exunit test context

FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.

FakeServer - FakeServer integrates with ExUnit to make external APIs testing simpler

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.

amrita - A polite, well mannered and thoroughly upstanding testing framework for Elixir

mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir

mock - Mocking library for Elixir language

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