Comments on: July NoVA RUG http://seanmountcastle.com/2007/07/22/july-nova-rug/ The musings of a programming enthusiast. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:10:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Patrick Reagan http://seanmountcastle.com/2007/07/22/july-nova-rug/#comment-8102 Patrick Reagan Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:54:34 +0000 http://seanmountcastle.com/2007/07/22/july-nova-rug/#comment-8102 Thanks, Sean. When I set out to compare the two libraries, I was certain that Mocha would prove to be the hands-down winner. Though the outcome wasn't as sensational as I would have liked, I hope I was able to introduce some useful concepts. I didn't mention it in my talk, but Mocha has been extremely helpful when testing Rails plugins. Using it to stub out ActiveRecord::Base#find turned out to be the best way to test my <a href="http://trac.extendviget.com/lab/wiki/CachesConstants" rel="nofollow">caches_constants</a> plugin. Thanks, Sean. When I set out to compare the two libraries, I was certain that Mocha would prove to be the hands-down winner. Though the outcome wasn’t as sensational as I would have liked, I hope I was able to introduce some useful concepts.

I didn’t mention it in my talk, but Mocha has been extremely helpful when testing Rails plugins. Using it to stub out ActiveRecord::Base#find turned out to be the best way to test my caches_constants plugin.

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