Rails 5 is without a doubt the best, most complete version of Rails yet. It has become better experience out of the box. Let's find out the secrets of testing rails 5 apps.

1. Secrets of Testing Rails 5 Apps

2. Rails Tests
Unit tests -> For models
Functional tests -> For controllers
Integration tests -> For scenarios of a particular feature

3. Change in rails 5
Unit tests -> No big change
Controller tests -> are most affected

4. What do we test in a controller test ?
Request --------------> Response

6. Controller tests actually lie...

7. Integration tests

8. Integration tests
Almost same as controller tests
Close to the real world
But before rails 5 they were really slow

9. Integration Controller tests are
default in Rails 5

10. Functional Controller tests are
soft deprecated

11. Old functional tests will
continue to work for now***

12. Might be extracted in separate
gem in Rails 5.1

13. BLACK BOX

14. Sprockets

15. Sprockets

16. Speeding Up Your Test Suite

23. Returns a saved User instance (writes to DB)
user = create(:user)
# Returns a User instance that's not saved (does not write to DB)
user = build(:user)
factory :user do
association posts
end
FactoryGirl.build(:user) #this creates posts in the database even though you are only building the parent
object(user)
Returns an object with all defined attributes stubbed out
stub = build_stubbed(:user)

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