Fried::Test

This gem provides a small executable named friest which is just an opinionated wrapper around minitest/autorun. You can run friest and it will run the test suite automatically for any test found in the directory test with any file ending with _test.rb.

It automatically includes (and uses) the Progress Report (you can overwrite it), and minitest-focus for when you need it.

Philosophy

This gem is mainly a philosophy on how your tests should be written. Tests API should be so simple that any Ruby developer can jump in and use it.

Here is how your tests should look:

require "test_helper"

class HelloWorldTest < Minitest::Spec
  def setup
    @text = "hello, world!"
  end

  it "uses text 'hello, world!'" do
    assert "hello, world!" == @text
  end
end

This is pure ruby. We don't use def because it feels more magical having to prefix methods with test_, so it might as well do it. In addition, pure text is much more descriptive than a method with_underscores_in_name.

You are allowed to use only the following assertions:

• assert
• refute
• assert_raises

So that any junior can join your team and write tests immediately. You are not allowed to use describe (it creates nested classes).

If you have to share tests between classes, use:

module MySharedTest
  it "has value equal to 0" do
    assert @value == 0
  end
end

and just include MySharedTest where needed.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'fried-test'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fried-test

Then require and activate the gem in your test_helper.rb

require "fried-test"
Fried::Test.activate

The "activation" is optional, it monkey patches Module class so that you can use module to share tests.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Fire-Dragon-DoL/fried-test.