Patrick Doyle wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote: >> Patrick Doyle wrote: >> True to a point. �Have you played around with anything else out there >> (RSpec?)? > Not yet... My applications and their associated tests have been > trivial and mostly been used as a learning tool for myself. I have > seen references to RSpec, Cucumber, and several other test platforms. > > I am quite certain that they all address needs that aren't met by the > standard unit/functional/integration tests baked into RoR.
Not necessarily. Some of them address the same needs, just in different ways. > > But I figure that that, if the standard unit/functional/integration > tests are good enough for the RoR developers, they should be good > enough for me. Bad assumption. You're not the Rails core team. Your needs may be different from those of the Rails core team. > > I am assuming (of course) that the RoR developers use the standard > test templates. If they don't, then why is that template (still) > included in RoR? There's a lot of crap in Rails because it hasn't been removed yet (*cough*fixtures*cough*). > > It's probably included because it was standard at some point in time, > and works well enough for small, simple projects. > > Which are all I've played with so far. As my projects get bigger or > more complicated, then I'll probably run into the same limitations > that inspired the other test environments and learn from that process. > I wonder. RSpec and Cucumber are good even for small, simple stuff. You're falling into the trap of assuming that the Rails core team is perfect. > --wpd Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
