So after wasting spending a few days checking out other test frameworks for Ruby/Rails, I’ve come up with this:
Rspec:
The Textmate plugin is barely useable; it appears to have a completely different manner of loading files versus the standard spec command(placing a spec file next to its target and doing a simple ‘require’ worked for the spec binary; the Textmate plugin waves its hands desperately). Wolf howls and tumbleweed are all that is received from asking about it on the #rspec IRC channel.
The bundle works OK under Rails,but of course now the simple use of cache_fu is freaking it out when coming to fixtures(and not even guarding the acts_as_cached statement with ‘defined?’ works because rSpec hooks into Kernel and does all kind of crazy voodoo).
This post gushes about “rspec leaving TDD in the dust”, I’ll believe it when some more consistency is gained.
rspec’ers are going to accuse me of being another idiot user who can’t set up their system correctly. I’ve setup Mysql multiple times(binary release, DarwinPorts, Macports, version) and made countless other mistakes(and fixed them) on my G4 laptop since 2004; I have a hard time thinking that some obvious mistake I’ve made is gumming up the works.
Shoulda would be a nice alternative(plugs into existing test/unit, but it depends heavily on autotest, and autotest still petulantly refuses to believe in namespaced Rails controllers, despite the availability of a patch. I may try updating the patch in the next day or two and giving it another go, but after two days and negative productivity gains, my gut feels like sticking with Test/Unit and friends, because They Just Work. And Just Working is rated higher in my book, no matter what sexy new features are in abundance(like mocking/stubbing)
