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Programming Ruby 3.3
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Programming Ruby 3.3

by Noel Rappin, Dave Thomas
January 2024
Intermediate to advanced
718 pages
20h 15m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Testing with RSpec

The minitest framework has a lot going for it. It’s simple and compatible in style with frameworks from other languages (such as JUnit for Java and pytest for Python).

RSpec has different things going for it. It’s feature-rich (or “complicated,” as some would say), and it has a different vocabulary for discussing testing. It also has a different syntax. Even so, that syntax has influenced the design of other testing tools including the Jasmine and Jest JavaScript testing frameworks.

In RSpec, the focus isn’t on assertions. Instead, you write expectations. RSpec is very much concerned with driving the design side of things. As a result, the vocabulary words of RSpec (expectation and specification) are associated with ways ...

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