19: The Oncoming Storm (Sam Phippen)
Derek and Sean are joined by Sam Phippen from the RSpec core team to discuss RSpec mocks, testing strategies, and minitest.
June 16, 201529m 11s
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Show Notes
Derek and Sean are joined by Sam Phippen from the RSpec core team to discuss RSpec mocks, testing strategies, and minitest.
- RSpec 3 adds composable matchers
- Spies were added to RSpec in 2.14
- Using
any_instanceto test legacy code - minitest
- RSpec's
stub_constmethod. - Don't Stub the System Under Test
assignsandassert_templateare deprecated in Rails 5- Sam's RailsConf talk: Understanding Rails Test Types in RSpec
- Fun & Plausible Solutions
- Sam on Twitter