What is the community-preferred Ruby unit testing framework?

Question

In the Java space, JUnit is predominately used and in .NET I believe nUnit is very popular. Is a community agreed upon unit testing framework for the Ruby world?

Background: I ask because I am new to Ruby and want to practice TDD at same time as I learn Ruby. So far I've only played with Test::Unit.

Answer 1

You can stick to Test::Unit or you can have nice extensions to it using Shoulda or some cool contexts using Context.

On the other side, if you prefer BDD then you can safely stick to RSpec.

As for for acceptance testing use Cucumber .

Answer 2

See also What’s the most commonly used unit testing framework for different types of Ruby applications? question.

Answer 3

The most popular one is RSpec, although both expectations and test/unit are quite well-known.

Answer 4

You may want to look into the manager gem that I have developed. It not only is a test framework, but is does documentation as well at the same time.