rspec-rails VS Rack::Attack

I am very comfortable with Minitest in Ruby. When I started to learn Rails, though, I was surprised by how different RSpec was. In case .NET testing is equally unlike the xUnit style, I should learn the idioms.

It supports both RSpec and Minitest as well as any other testing gem. There are flexible configurations options which allow to configure editor with needed testing tool.

I'm a huge supporter for TDD(Test Driven Development). Almost every piece code should be tested. During my co-op more than half of the time I spent writing test for my PR. I believe that experience really helped me understand the necessity of testing. I was surprised to see how similar the testing framework in JS and Ruby are. I used Jest which is very similar to RSpec I have used during my co-op. To mock http resquest I used Nock kinda similar to something called VCR.

The describe and it keywords are popularly used in other JavaScript testing frameworks to write and organize unit tests. This style originated in Ruby's Rspec testing library and is commonly known as spec-style testing.

5. Automated Tests: Unit tests are automated tests that verify the behavior of a small unit of code in isolation. I like to write unit tests for every bug reported by a user. This way, I can reproduce the bug in a controlled environment and verify that the fix works as expected and that we wont see a regression. There are many different JavaScript test frameworks like Jest, cypress, mocha, and jasmine. We use Rspec and Minitest for unit and integration tests in our rails application.

When it comes to testing code, both frameworks are very much comparable since you can test either using the versatile RSpec library.

When starting a Rails project, you have a lot of decisions to make. Whether or not to write tests should not be one of them. The big decision is to use Minitest or Rspec. Both of those testing frameworks are great and provide everything you need to test a Rails application thoroughly.

RSpec

rspec-rails factory_bot_rails faker

Ruby testing with RSpec

The first line of defense should be to put rate-limiting on your login endpoints. rack-attack can help with that. I recommend to limit the login attempts to 5 per minute for a username and block the IP for 30 minutes. You should also limit the number of login attempts from the same IP address, but this needs to be adjusted to the application you are working on, because if it is a tool used in classrooms, it might be legit to have 50 logins within a few minutes from the same IP. (I have a few post written about rack-attack)

Rack::Attack

Second vote for rack-attack!

You could use something like Rack Attack to mitigate this type of behavior if it becomes an issue.

The final gem I like to include in all projects is rack-attack. This is a rate limiting tool which is great for throttling dangerous actions in your app to prevent bot attacks or other malicious users.

rack-attack to prevent bruteforce and DDoS attacks

Check out Rack Attack. It lets you block bots that make requests too fast to be real users, or that request obviously-suspect URLs (/phpmyadmin for example). There are lots of other options, but those are the quick wins IMO.