Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap

Installing RSpec for Testing

Rails ships with Test::Unit as the default testing framework. Test::Unit is a fine choice, and demonstrates the concepts of testing in Rails quite well. Despite that, RSpec is quite popular among Ruby developers. An annual survey conducted by Hampton Catlin^[47] shows that, of the developers polled, 69.4% prefer RSpec for testing.

While this is a good reason to become familiar with RSpec, it’s not the main reason we want to use it here. When we get to ​Writing Unit Tests for Angular Components​, we’ll be using Jasmine for testing our JavaScript, and both Jasmine and RSpec share a similar syntax. Here’s an RSpec test:

describe "a simple test" do
  it "should test something" do
 expect(number).to eq(10) ...