rack-test VS dotenv

Compare rack-test vs dotenv and see what are their differences.

rack-test

Rack::Test is a small, simple testing API for Rack apps. (by rack)

dotenv

A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`. (by bkeepers)
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rack-test

Posts with mentions or reviews of rack-test. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
  • Test Driving a Rails API - Part Two
    7 projects | dev.to | 21 Mar 2024
    In this part, we’ll set up our testing environment so that we can test our Rails API using minitest with minitest/spec. We’ll look at the differences between traditional style unit tests and spec-style tests, or specs. I’ll demonstrate why you should use minitest-rails. We’ll look at using rack-test for testing our API. We’ll even create our own generator to generate API specs.
  • Application-as-a-Function Thinking
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022
    The "app-as-function" has some very concrete applications though, even outside languages like Haskell. The [rack-test](https://github.com/rack/rack-test) gem (and similar languages) work exactly like this: they run the "app" part without the "web server" part to enable much easier testing. Rack middlewares similarly treat the enclosed app as just a function taking some specified input and returning some output value.

dotenv

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotenv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rack-test and dotenv you can also consider the following projects:

timecop - A gem providing "time travel", "time freezing", and "time acceleration" capabilities, making it simple to test time-dependent code. It provides a unified method to mock Time.now, Date.today, and DateTime.now in a single call.

Figaro - Simple Rails app configuration

http4k - The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.

RailsConfig - Easiest way to add multi-environment yaml settings to Rails, Sinatra, Padrino and other Ruby projects.

minitest-rails - Minitest integration for Rails

cross-env

ENVied - Ensures presence and type of your app's ENV-variables (mirror)

Configatron - A super cool, simple, and feature rich configuration system for Ruby apps.

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

hardhat-deploy - hardhat deployment plugin

Global - "Global" provides accessor methods for your configuration data

Mongoose - MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.