Ruby: "the best" language for general automation

• inspec

  13 2,816 9.4 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.

• bats-core

  23 4,652 8.8 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.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Aruba

  1 950 7.8 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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