timecop VS time-machine

Compare timecop vs time-machine 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)

time-machine

Travel through time in your tests. (by adamchainz)
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timecop time-machine
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3,334 603
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6.1 8.6
20 days ago 6 days ago
Ruby Python
MIT License MIT License
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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.

time-machine

Posts with mentions or reviews of time-machine. 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 time-machine you can also consider the following projects:

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

freezegun - Let your Python tests travel through time

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

doublex

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

betamax - A VCR imitation designed only for python-requests.

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

mock - The Python mock library

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

responses - A utility for mocking out the Python Requests library.