testcontainers-rs VS libreddit

Testing with added infrastructure can be quite tricky. testcontainers aims to solve this by providing an open-source framework for providing local, lightweight containers for your application that can be immediately thrown away after use. It also has a Rust SDK!

Add tests! You can use testcontainers to spin up Docker containers for Postgres and other infrastructure which makes testing your database extremely easy. You can find more about this here.

You didn't mention how do you start Postgres for the tests. Is it assumed it runs in the background? A cool crate I use lately for this kind of thing is test_containers that can start docker containers from code, for example - Postgres

Do you manually spin up the containers or do you use testcontainers?

For the repo testing, that’s simple. https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-rs will start a Docker image and you just use that when instantiating the repo.

Thanks for sharing! I'm still a beginner with Rust and still pretty new to testing in general - is there any benefit to using something like this over bringing up the service as a separate container using something like testcontainers? I suppose the biggest one is this is in-memory and doesn't require the party running tests to have Docker available locally. The tradeoff is the extra work to create all the mocks (i.e. my library has several dozen endpoints).

Don't use Youtube without going through a proxy like Invidious [1] or Newpipe

Don't use {site} Search without going through a proxy like SearxNG [2]

Don't use TwiXXer without going through a proxy like Nitter - this has gotten more difficult lately but it still works as long as you feed the daemon some registered accounts. Video does not work at the moment but that seems to be fixable.

Don't use Reddit without going through a proxy like libreddit [4]

Start noticing the pattern? Maybe it is time to start producing promotional posters:

The only thing to come between you and ADS could be a proxy / ADS. I'ts just not worth the risk

ADS / New rules for a sane net / Sane net protects you, your partner and your community

A proxy here and a filter there, ADS nowhere

The more you tighten your grip, ${site}, the more viewers will slip through your fingers

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

[2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

[3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[4] https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit

This is a particular teddit instance shutting down, not teddit the software project.

Stuff is moving a lot currently and there is a bumpy road ahead, but there are several courses of action already being mapped out (scraping html, r-e the private gql api, a setting for operators to put some auth token, ..).

https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/836

https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/issues/400

Sadly the quick refresh is no longer working for me, and going through all of the instances on Libredirect, they all seem to be constantly down now.

It appears that they are trying to deal with this issue here:

https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/836

Yes, the official Reddit app uses a different endpoint for authentication. There has been great progress in reverse-engineering the private API: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/818

There's a fork of Libreddit that uses the API key leaked from the official Reddit app: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/pull/819