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Top 23 Ruby Testing Projects
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faker
A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers. (by faker-ruby)
Check out tests/server/FunParkHedgehog/HedgehogGenerators.fs. To grok the file, you need to know that Bogus is an F# implementation of the great Ruby Faker gem - a library for creating plausible-sounding values in a variety of domains.
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Selenium has issues. I'm using it with Capybara and the latest encounter was a Net::ReadTimeout. I switched to Playwright following Justin Searls guide.
- Project mention: A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-03
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vcr
Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.
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In CI environments, we often run RSpec in parallel to speed things up. For that, there’s a gem called parallel_tests.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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timecop
A gem providing "time travel", "time freezing", and "time acceleration" capabilities, making it simple to test time-dependent code. It provides a unified method to mock Time.now, Date.today, and DateTime.now in a single call.
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minitest
minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, and benchmarking.
Project mention: 30,656 Pages of Books About the .NET Ecosystem: C#, Blazor, ASP.NET, & T-SQL | dev.to | 2025-03-16I am very comfortable with Minitest in Ruby. When I started to learn Rails, though, I was surprised by how different RSpec was. In case .NET testing is equally unlike the xUnit style, I should learn the idioms.
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Database Cleaner
Strategies for cleaning databases in Ruby. Can be used to ensure a clean state for testing.
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test-kitchen
Test Kitchen is an integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms
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Spork
A DRb server for testing frameworks (RSpec / Cucumber currently) that forks before each run to ensure a clean testing state.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Testing projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | faker | 11,577 |
| 2 | Capybara | 10,133 |
| 3 | factory_bot | 8,364 |
| 4 | vcr | 6,007 |
| 5 | WebMock | 4,039 |
| 6 | shoulda-matchers | 3,560 |
| 7 | Parallel Tests | 3,484 |
| 8 | timecop | 3,410 |
| 9 | minitest | 3,377 |
| 10 | inspec | 3,022 |
| 11 | Database Cleaner | 2,961 |
| 12 | Spring | 2,817 |
| 13 | mutant | 2,053 |
| 14 | Ruby Tests Profiling Toolbox | 1,990 |
| 15 | test-kitchen | 1,894 |
| 16 | DuckRails | 1,717 |
| 17 | ffaker | 1,564 |
| 18 | Watir | 1,547 |
| 19 | Spork | 1,394 |
| 20 | cuprite | 1,347 |
| 21 | Appraisal | 1,311 |
| 22 | mocha | 1,267 |
| 23 | Machinist | 1,116 |
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