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a testing framework that comes in the standard library of Ruby 1.9.

Minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking. When making assertions in Cucumber step definitions, there are a few different libraries you could choose. MiniTest is one of the candidates.

MiniTest’s assertions are built into Ruby, which makes them a handy tool to reach for. They use a style of assertion that you’ll be familiar with if you’re used to making assertions in any xUnit testing framework.

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Is it possible to run a single test in MiniTest?

I can run all tests in a single file with: rake test TEST=path/to/test_file.rb However, if I want to run just one test in that file, how would I do it? I'm looking for similar functionality to: rspec path/to/test_file.rb -l 25
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What is the expected syntax for checking exception messages in MiniTest's assert_raises/must_raise?

What is the expected syntax for checking exception messages in MiniTest's assert_raises/must_raise? I'm trying to make an assertion something like the following, where "Foo" is the expected error message: proc { bar.do_it }.must_raise…
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Is it possible to mark a test as pending in MiniTest?

And if this is possible, what is the syntax for this?
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How to run all tests with minitest?

I downloaded source code for a project, found a bug, and fixed it. Now I want to run tests to find out if I have broken anything. The Tests are in minitest DSL. How do I run them all at once? I searched for applicable rake tasks etc, but I didn't…
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How do I stub things in MiniTest?

Within my test I want to stub a canned response for any instance of a class. It might look like something like: Book.stubs(:title).any_instance().returns("War and Peace") Then whenever I call @book.title it returns "War and Peace". Is there a way…
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How to organize minitest/unit tests?

After using RSpec for several projects, I'm giving minitest/unit a go. I'm liking it so far, but I miss using describe/context blocks to group my tests/specs in a logical way. I know minitest/spec provides this functionality, but I like that…
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Minitest and Rspec

I have just watched a Railscast for Minitest. What are the pros and cons for using RSpec vs Minitest for testing a rails app? Which features will I lose converting from RSpec to Minitest?
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How to set up MiniTest?

I'm a fairly novice tester, but have been trying to get better at TDD in Rails. RSpec works great, but my tests are pretty slow. I've heard that MiniTest is a lot faster, and the MiniTest/Spec DSL looks pretty similar to how I'm used to working with…
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Before/After Suite when using Ruby MiniTest

Is there an alternative to RSpec's before(:suite) and after(:suite) in MiniTest? I suspect that a custom test runner is in order, however I cannot imagine it is not a common requirement, so somebody has probably implemented in. :-)
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How to assert certain method is called with Ruby minitest framework?

I want to test whether a function invokes other functions properly with minitest Ruby, but I cannot find a proper assert to test from the doc. The source code class SomeClass def invoke_function(name) name == "right" ? right () : wrong () …
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How to use assert_select to test for presence of a given link?

My page should contain a link that looks like Click to go. How would you test for that using assert_select? I want to check for the presence of an a tag with href="/desired_path/1". How do you test the attributes of a…
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Why doesn't MiniTest::Spec have a wont_raise assertion?

Ruby's Test::Unit has assert_nothing_raised. Test::Unit has been replaced by MiniTest. Why don't MiniTest's assertions / expectations have anything parallel to this? For example you can expect must_raise but not wont_raise.
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minitest, test::unit, and rails

I read somewhere that 'minitest' is the "new test::unit for ruby 1.9.2+". But ruby 1.9.3 seems to include both test::unit and minitest, is that true? In the default rails testing, as outlined in the Rails testing guide.... things like…
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How to assert the contents of an array, indifferent of the ordering

I have a minitest spec: it "fetches a list of all databases" do get "/v1/databases" json = JSON.parse(response.body) json.length.must_equal Database.count json.map{|d| d["id"]}.must_equal Database.all.pluck(:id) end This, however,…
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How do I stub a method to raise an error using Ruby MiniTest?

I'm trying to test a Rails controller branch that is triggered when the model method raises an error. def my_controller_method @my_object = MyObject.find(params[:id]) begin result = @my_object.my_model_method(params) rescue…
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