Ruby: "the best" language for general automation

1. inspec

   1 13 2,936 9.2 Ruby

   InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework

   

   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.

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. bats-core

   2 24 5,375 8.2 Shell

   Bash Automated Testing System

   

   The tool that was most indicated was Bats, made in Shell Script. But I couldn't make some simple things work like assigning variables to use them within the tests. The documentation itself said that it was a little complicated to split the tests into different files. Imagine the mess that would be as the tests grew.

4. Aruba

   3 1 955 7.2 Ruby

   Test command-line applications with Cucumber-Ruby, RSpec or Minitest.

   

   Another tool I found was Aruba, written in Ruby, but the documentation is practically non-existent and it recommends using it with Cucumber. Even the examples inside are in a features folder. I refuse to use Cucumber…

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