What’s the best way to test a gem that integrates with Rails?

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  • combustion

    Simple, elegant testing for Rails Engines

  • if you want the smallest possible dummy app, provided by a gem, see combustion. It does work well with appraisal for testing against multiple versions of Rails, which someone else mentioned.

  • good_job

    Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.

  • I just opened an issue on GoodJob about turning it into a mountable engine solely if you wanted to continue that discussion: https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job/issues/543

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  • Appraisal

    A Ruby library for testing your library against different versions of dependencies.

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