test unit

Despite RSpec's awesomeness, Test::Unit remains the most popular Ruby testing tool out there outside of Rails apps.

As an outspoken and opinionated guy, David Heinemeier Hansson (a.k.a.

DHH), creator of Rails, is no stranger to a little bit of controversy.

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.

Evan Light has recently pushed his Coulda project to Github - it's a test framework based on Test::Unit, inspired by Cucumber, Shoulda and Thor.

In Make Your Test Suite UNCOMFORTABLY FAST! (called "the best blog post ever written" by one commenter) Jason Morrison of Thoughtbot demonstrates how to use Michael Grosser's Parallel Specs project to speed up your

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.

It been a few weeks since Shoulda's 2.10 release so it's a good time to round up some of the new features and the best articles covering Shoulda.