Rails 5 Test Prescriptions

Chapter 12Minitest

Some people like the classics.

Some people don’t like RSpec’s syntax or its metaprogramming.

Some people use Minitest.

Minitest is the standard testing framework in the Ruby 2.0 Standard Library. It is also the default test framework for Rails. Compared to RSpec, Minitest is smaller, simpler, and less flexible. Minitest is also the testing suite used by the Rails team to test Rails itself. Minitest proponents say that a test suite is a terrible place to be dependent on metaprogramming and magic, and Minitest is easier to understand. RSpec proponents say that Minitest is not “expressive” and that Minitest tests are harder to understand.

It is much more important that you write tests than that you use a specific test framework. ...