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Top 23 Ruby Testing Projects
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faker
A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers. (by faker-ruby)
If we have a seed file, that's amazing. If we don't, I somewhat recommend using faker to help out. It's great for making random seeds, but my project group and I ran into some trouble manipulating the output data as beginners, so I'd say it's handy, but only to a certain degree. Once our seeds are filled in, run:
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Engineering at Aha! focuses on using and improving the Capybara test framework. We have added many helpers and additional functionality to make working with Capybara easy. Testing at mobile widths is another chance to improve our testing tooling. Here is the incremental approach that we used to add mobile testing helpers.
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Scout APM
Truly a developer’s best friend. Scout APM is great for developers who want to find and fix performance issues in their applications. With Scout, we'll take care of the bugs so you can focus on building great things 🚀.
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Efate is actually the second test fixture library I've written and there were several lessons I learned after using the first iteration for several years myself. The first version was influenced a great deal by factor_girl (called factory_bot now), with a heavy dependency on strings to define and create the fixtures. It also wasn't very modular. You couldn't just import a specific fixture, you had to bring in the whole library. And it wasn't very extensible, if you needed to define custom behavior for how a field should be created, it wasn't very pretty.
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vcr
Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.
A way to avoid this is using the VCR gem.
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In order to keep our test suite faster and consistent, we need to mock our http requests. A simple and good way to achieve this is using the Webmock gem which allow easily mock the http responses for your requests.
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Project mention: Rspec - should relations between model be tested? | reddit.com/r/rails | 2022-10-26
The value of shoulda-matchers is right there in the first line of the README: "test common Rails functionality that, if written by hand, would be much longer, more complex, and error-prone."
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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.
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SonarLint
Clean code begins in your IDE with SonarLint. Up your coding game and discover issues early. SonarLint is a free plugin that helps you find & fix bugs and security issues from the moment you start writing code. Install from your favorite IDE marketplace today.
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Project mention: Seeking help with moving a locally running, short-lived Docker container to CI / deployment process? | reddit.com/r/devops | 2022-11-21
Thanks for that feedback. For some more context, the container is designed to run 40+ processes in parallel sending remote instructions to AWS Device Farm for testing, so I suspect that the RAM usage is expected in this case. If you have any recommendations on re-architecting the execution here I'm all ears.
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minitest
minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.
The new test convention is now "test/**/test_*.rb" instead of "test/**/*_test.rb". For example, Puma and Minitest are popular repositories using this naming pattern.
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Project mention: Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow,…) Always Failed with UI Test Automation? | dev.to | 2022-09-15
RSpec is the most popular “Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby”. RSpec v3.8.0 alone has over 193 million downloads on RubyGems. While RSpec may also be used for unit or integration tests, its download count is quite impressive. As a comparison, the most-downloaded Cucumber v3.1.2 is merely 8.8 million.
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Database Cleaner
Strategies for cleaning databases in Ruby. Can be used to ensure a clean state for testing.
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# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem "rails", github: "rails/rails", branch: "main" gem "rails", "~> 7.0.4" # The original asset pipeline for Rails [https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails] gem "sprockets-rails" # Use sqlite3 as the database for Active Record gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.4" # Use the Puma web server [https://github.com/puma/puma] gem "puma", "~> 5.0" # Use JavaScript with ESM import maps [https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails] gem "importmap-rails" # Hotwire's SPA-like page accelerator [https://turbo.hotwired.dev] gem "turbo-rails" # Hotwire's modest JavaScript framework [https://stimulus.hotwired.dev] gem "stimulus-rails" # Build JSON APIs with ease [https://github.com/rails/jbuilder] gem "jbuilder" # Windows does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem gem "tzinfo-data", platforms: %i[ mingw mswin x64_mingw jruby ] # Reduces boot times through caching; required in config/boot.rb gem "bootsnap", require: false # Use Sass to process CSS # gem "sassc-rails" # Use Active Storage variants [https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html#transforming-images] # gem "image_processing", "~> 1.2" group :development, :test do # See https://guides.rubyonrails.org/debugging_rails_applications.html#debugging-with-the-debug-gem gem "debug", platforms: %i[ mri mingw x64_mingw ] end group :development do # Use console on exceptions pages [https://github.com/rails/web-console] gem "web-console" # Add speed badges [https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler] # gem "rack-mini-profiler" # Speed up commands on slow machines / big apps [https://github.com/rails/spring] # gem "spring" end group :test do # Use system testing [https://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#system-testing] gem "capybara" gem "selenium-webdriver" gem "webdrivers" end
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The course uses Chef Inspec, an open source Ruby DSL. I made a POC with this tool to automatically check repositories on GitHub, checks like if it contains a gitignore consistent with the language used, if node_modules is not present, etc.
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There's a pretty good Ruby gem I've used for this before:
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TestProf can be used to get flamegraphs for Ruby test suites.
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Spork
A DRb server for testing frameworks (RSpec / Cucumber currently) that forks before each run to ensure a clean testing state.
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Project mention: What’s the best way to test a gem that integrates with Rails? | reddit.com/r/ruby | 2022-03-18
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Konacha
Test your Rails application's JavaScript with the mocha test framework and chai assertion library
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You might want to give https://github.com/rubycdp/cuprite a try, in case you are currently using the Rails default selenium-webdriver as driver for javascript tests. It's not going through selenium, but controlling a Chrome or Chromium instance in a more direct way. I've recently switched a larger test suite to it, and besides a remarkable speed improvement (I think it was around 20%), most of the previous flakyness was gone.
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Zigi
Workflow assistant built for devs & their teams. Automate the mundane part of your day, with live actionable messages for your GitHub & Jira tasks.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2022-11-21.
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- Hurl 1.8.0, text based integration tests for REST APIs and web sites
- Using the Faker Gem to Populate your Database
- working with factory bot and active storage
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A note from our sponsor - Zigi
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Testing projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | faker | 10,495 |
| 2 | Capybara | 9,718 |
| 3 | factory_bot | 7,648 |
| 4 | vcr | 5,465 |
| 5 | WebMock | 3,718 |
| 6 | shoulda-matchers | 3,327 |
| 7 | timecop | 3,215 |
| 8 | Parallel Tests | 3,156 |
| 9 | minitest | 3,084 |
| 10 | RSpec | 2,859 |
| 11 | Database Cleaner | 2,826 |
| 12 | Spring | 2,746 |
| 13 | inspec | 2,595 |
| 14 | mutant | 1,870 |
| 15 | DuckRails | 1,706 |
| 16 | Ruby Tests Profiling Toolbox | 1,576 |
| 17 | ffaker | 1,491 |
| 18 | Watir | 1,454 |
| 19 | Spork | 1,401 |
| 20 | Appraisal | 1,156 |
| 21 | Machinist | 1,126 |
| 22 | Konacha | 1,060 |
| 23 | cuprite | 1,000 |
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