
SIGAVDI #92: Breakfast Smoothie Edition
Hello friends,
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks. I’ve been doing a lot of RSpec test suite maintenance. I have lots of Big Opinions about how to do spec suites well, but the truth is the combination of Ruby, Rails, RSpec and FactoryBot furnish so many opportunities to grow thickets of impenetrable test code that I can’t fault anyone who finds themselves with a flaky, slow-running, hard-to-update mess on their hands. Test suites are best when they are boring, and these tools offer many, many opportunities to make them… interesting.