19: The Oncoming Storm (Sam Phippen) - a podcast by thoughtbot

Derek and Sean are joined by Sam Phippen from the RSpec core team to discuss RSpec mocks, testing strategies, and minitest.

• RSpec 3 adds composable matchers


• Spies were added to RSpec in 2.14


• Using any_instance to test legacy code


• minitest


• RSpec's stub_const method.


• Don't Stub the System Under Test


• assigns and assert_template are deprecated in Rails 5


• Sam's RailsConf talk: Understanding Rails Test Types in RSpec


• Fun & Plausible Solutions


• Sam on Twitter

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