test::unit or rspec for newbies?

February 12, 2008

If a beginner was starting his ‘Rails journey’ should we advise traditional test::unit testing vs. new rspec testing… I think rspec is the future, and it’s now relatively stable, but it’s also more complicated + tricky than test::unit.

Would you advise newbies learn test::unit before rspec in order to more fully appreciate rspec?

I just gave advice not to test at all on first project, as learning Ruby + Rails is tough enough without trying to figure out testing… Did I goof?

RSpec Story Runner from Plain Text File

October 22, 2007

The progress David Chelimsky is making on rspec is impressive, in particular his ability to take a diverse set of input and drive the project forward. Of course, big props go to Pat Maddox for driving the plain text file idea forward.

See David’s full post.