On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Rick DeNatale <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was thinking that there must be a comparison/conversion chart > somewhere, like the Test:Unit => RSpec translation guide in the RSpec > docs, but my usually awesome google skills seem to be failing me on > this.
Major differences off the top of my head: * RSpec's mocking framework has 'mock_model' and 'stub_model' for Rails testing. There's some controversy about them, but many people find them convenient. * Mocha offers the 'any_instance' class method, which makes it easy to inject mock or stub behavior into objects that aren't created yet. There's some controversy about it, but many people find it convenient. >8-> But personal or "judgmental" preferences aside, I don't think one is head-and-shoulders above the other. Many of the differences are purely on the surface, and no one will call you wrong for using either one. I use Mocha mostly out of an aesthetic preference for its syntax. I don't think it makes me a better human being. (And I try not to mock when I can help it these days anyway.)* As for your current project -- if it's already fairly deeply invested in Mocha, my advice would be to keep it there. I once did convert a project from one to the other for inconsequential reasons. It wasn't _hard_ to do; it was mostly just "start with a passing test suite, and find-and-replace and fix specific lines until it passes again." But I realized at the end that I hadn't really _gained_ anything. It wasn't even a useful refactoring. I could've spent that time adding something to my application instead. -- Have Fun, Steve Eley ([email protected]) ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine http://www.escapepod.org _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
