timecop VS freezegun

Compare timecop vs freezegun and see what are their differences.

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. (by travisjeffery)

freezegun

Let your Python tests travel through time (by spulec)
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timecop freezegun
4 9
3,334 3,970
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6.1 6.7
19 days ago 4 days ago
Ruby Python
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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timecop

Posts with mentions or reviews of timecop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.

freezegun

Posts with mentions or reviews of freezegun. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing timecop and freezegun you can also consider the following projects:

Parallel Tests - Ruby: 2 CPUs = 2x Testing Speed for RSpec, Test::Unit and Cucumber

time-machine - Travel through time in your tests.

vcr - Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.

python-libfaketime - A fast time mocking alternative to freezegun that wraps libfaketime.

R Spec - A minimalist RSpec clone with all the essentials. [Moved to: https://github.com/cyril/r_spec-clone.rb]

Moto - A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.

Knapsack - Knapsack splits tests evenly across parallel CI nodes to run fast CI build and save you time.

VCR.py - Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing

mutant - Automated code reviews via mutation testing - semantic code coverage.

httpretty - Intercept HTTP requests at the Python socket level. Fakes the whole socket module

Spring - Rails application preloader

mock - The Python mock library