Do we need any more test frameworks?

A talk I gave at LRUG in 2011, about the plethora of testing frameworks in Ruby, and the urge to write my own

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1. you an existing library (the horse is probably your ego)
2. you your ideal library
3. language ✘ app framework ✘ test framework ✔
4. test/unit rspec cucumber
5. before / setup test ... should ... it ... after / teardown
6. blah = Hubris.new do before do @x = 1 end it “works” do raise unless 1 == @x end after do @x = nil end end blah.run
7. class Hubris def initialize(&block) instance_eval(&block) end def before(&block) @before = block end def it(name, &block) @test = block end # etc ... def run instance_eval(&@before) instance_eval(&@test) instance_eval(&@after) end end stash evaluate evaluate
8. before / setup test ... should ... it ... after / teardown @f = File.new @f.unlink @f.read
9. subcontexts: parent & child def run_befores @parent.run_befores if @parent instance_eval(&@before) end def run run_befores instance_eval(&@test) # etc ... end
10. Hubris.new do def some_method @x = 1 end it “works” do raise unless 1 == some_method end end where does this method live?
11. all of this has happened before; and it will all happen again.
13. AXIS OF WTF
14. it’s probably OK.
15. except maybe it’s not OK?
16. maybe don’t write anything.
17. maybe become a contributer.
18. open source responsibility.
19. give some context.
20. kill-ish your darlings. bit.ly/rubytesting