tentacat
Simple Elixir wrapper for the GitHub API (by edgurgel)
mock
Mocking library for Elixir language (by jjh42)
| tentacat | mock | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 438 | 629 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.9 | 4.3 | |
| 5 months ago | 2 months ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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.
tentacat
Posts with mentions or reviews of tentacat.
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
In my opinion, Mock works well for certain types of tests. I usually find myself reaching for it when we need to mock external libraries that we have no control over. For example, let’s say we use an external library to fetch a user’s GitHub profile instead of our custom GithubAPI. Something like this:
mock
Posts with mentions or reviews of mock.
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
It also maintains separate mocks for each process, so you can continue using async tests. It’s a great alternative to Mock — but that also means the same caveat applies: be careful about what you mock.
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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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tentacat and mock you can also consider the following projects:
zanox - Zanox API
mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir
stripe - Elixir Library wrapping Stripe's API
meck - A mocking library for Erlang
feedlex - Feedly client for Elixir
Stubr - Stubr is a set of functions helping people to create stubs and spies in Elixir.
keenex - Keen.io API Client for Elixir
ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
airbax - Exception tracking from Elixir to Airbrake
ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases
sparkpost - SparkPost client library for Elixir https://developers.sparkpost.com
ElixirMock - Creates clean, concurrent, inspectable mocks from elixir modules