Rails 5 Test Prescriptions

Retrospective

Let’s take a step back and discuss what happened here. You’re supposed to be learning about integration tests, and yet you never touched the integration test after you initially wrote it. What good is that? (Full disclosure: in initial writing I did have to go back and clean up the integration test because I had syntax errors and the like. Sometimes I need to fix the assertions after I see what the view looks like.)

The integration test offers a few benefits as you write these tests:

• There’s a structure; you know what needs to be done next. This is valuable, although given the nature of a lot of server-side development there does tend to be one large gap where the integration test provides the expected outcome but doesn’t give ...