Minitest vs RSpec?

[Jesse Cooke]

Anybody use Minitest and have an opinion on using it over RSpec? Especially with 1.8.x?

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Jesse Cooke
N-tier Engineer
http://jc00ke.com

[Jerry Hilts]

Minitest can be faster, but I prefer the RSpec style expectations.

[Kyle Drake]

I would like to mention Contest, incase you're looking to really make
a run for it: http://blog.citrusbyte.com/2009/05/19/introducing-contest/

I am withholding my very strong opinion of RSpec so as to avoid a
flame war, and possibly a visit from the police.

-Kyle

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[Simon Chiang]

I tried to use MiniTest back when it first came out. I found bugs,
some significant, which took a long time to resolve or haven't been
resolved. The maintainer also made several, IMO, poor design
choices... but then it is his library so he can do what he wants! :)

Here is what I mean:

* bugs in mini/mock (resolved, in just under 2 years) -
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22838&group_id=1040&atid=4097
* output message reversal (ignored) -
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=28223&group_id=1040&atid=4097
* non-justified output (shot down) - http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1193
* no warning of override on 1.8.6 (?) -
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=23845&group_id=1040&atid=4097
* other stuff (resolved) - http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=4097&aid=22274&group_id=1040

Honestly I want to like MiniTest. For the most part it's a really
good rewrite, but issues like these have soured it for me. It's one
of the main reasons why I've put off adopting 1.9.x