19: The Oncoming Storm (Sam Phippen)

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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