mox VS ex_machina

Compare mox vs ex_machina and see what are their differences.

mox

modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email (by mjl-)

ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)
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mox ex_machina
19 2
3,224 1,872
- 0.2%
9.7 6.8
10 days ago 4 months ago
Go Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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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 2024-04-09.

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!)

What are some alternatives?

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

ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.

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

Mailu - Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images

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

ignorant - ignorant allows you to check if a phone number is used on different sites like snapchat, instagram.

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

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

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

meck - A mocking library for Erlang

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

mecks_unit - A simple Elixir package to elegantly mock module functions within (asynchronous) ExUnit tests using Erlang's :meck library

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.