alex young

Riot is a new Ruby test framework by Justin Knowlden that focuses on faster testing.

Justin was frustrated with his slow running test suites, despite employing techniques such as using factories, mocks and avoiding database access.

He realized that a slow-running suite makes one reluctant to run it or expand it - not good.

François Vaux has recently published a Ruby module called Rackable which allows you to make any Ruby object Rack-friendly, providing it with a REST-like interface.