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Rails 4 Test Prescriptions: Build a Healthy Codebase
Does your Rails code suffer from bloat, brittleness, or inaccuracy? Cure these problems with a regular dose of test-driven development. Rails 4 Test Prescriptions is a comprehensive guide to how tests can help you design and write better Rails applications. In this completely revised edition, you'll learn why testing works and how to test effectively using Rails 4, Minitest 5, and RSpec 3, as well as popular testing libraries such as factory_girl and Cucumber. Do what the doctor ordered to make your applications feel all better. Side effects may include better code, fewer bugs, and happier developers.
Your Ruby on Rails application is sick. Deadlines are looming, but every time you make the slightest change to the code, something else breaks. Nobody remembers what that tricky piece of code was supposed to do, and nobody can tell what it actually does. Plus, it has bugs. You need test-driven development, a process for improving the design, maintainability, and long-term viability of software.
Containing both practical code examples and discussion of why testing works, this book starts with the most basic features delivered as part of core Ruby on Rails. Once you've integrated those features into your coding practice, you'll learn how to use popular third-party testing tools such as RSpec, Mocha, Cucumber, and factory_girl. You'll test the component parts of a Rails application, including the back-end model logic and the front-end display logic. Using Rails examples, you'll learn how to use testing to enable your code to respond better to future change. Plus, you'll see how to handle real-world testing situations.
This completely revised edition contains a new tutorial, as well as new examples throughout the book. Many chapters, including the JavaScript chapter, have undergone major changes to reflect new tools and new practices. And there are brand new chapters on testing for security, and testing external services.
What You
Ruby 2.1, Rails 4
Your Ruby on Rails application is sick. Deadlines are looming, but every time you make the slightest change to the code, something else breaks. Nobody remembers what that tricky piece of code was supposed to do, and nobody can tell what it actually does. Plus, it has bugs. You need test-driven development, a process for improving the design, maintainability, and long-term viability of software.
Containing both practical code examples and discussion of why testing works, this book starts with the most basic features delivered as part of core Ruby on Rails. Once you've integrated those features into your coding practice, you'll learn how to use popular third-party testing tools such as RSpec, Mocha, Cucumber, and factory_girl. You'll test the component parts of a Rails application, including the back-end model logic and the front-end display logic. Using Rails examples, you'll learn how to use testing to enable your code to respond better to future change. Plus, you'll see how to handle real-world testing situations.
This completely revised edition contains a new tutorial, as well as new examples throughout the book. Many chapters, including the JavaScript chapter, have undergone major changes to reflect new tools and new practices. And there are brand new chapters on testing for security, and testing external services.
What You
Ruby 2.1, Rails 4
350 pages, Paperback
First published October 25, 2014
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November 25, 2015
The better Rails 4 (RSpec) testing book.
Focusing on how to test, why to test and writing fast tests.
Covers the most useful scenarios and overlaps with https://github.com/eliotsykes/rspec-r... which can only be a good thing.
If you don't know much about BDD/TDD and how to write tests not to mention good tests, this is a good book to learn from.
Focusing on how to test, why to test and writing fast tests.
Covers the most useful scenarios and overlaps with https://github.com/eliotsykes/rspec-r... which can only be a good thing.
If you don't know much about BDD/TDD and how to write tests not to mention good tests, this is a good book to learn from.
January 27, 2015
I made a lot of notes while I was reading the book. I was already using some of the described methodics, but there were some new things which are clearer now. And can't wait to apply those in practice.
May 7, 2015
If this book was any more exciting, it would no longer be a book about software testing.
One cool feature of the book is that the examples you're implementing as you go through the book all belong to the same project, so you've got a good context to work from throughout the book.
One cool feature of the book is that the examples you're implementing as you go through the book all belong to the same project, so you've got a good context to work from throughout the book.
April 4, 2015
One of the best books about the subject of testing.
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