Step-by-step guide: Setting up Rspec in your existing rails 7 project for effective testing
Rspec
RSpec
is a testing framework for the Ruby programming language, and it is commonly used in the context of Ruby on Rails applications.
RSpec is designed to support Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and provides a domain-specific language (DSL) for writing expressive and readable tests.
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Add rspec to the gemfile
group :development, :test do
gem 'rspec-rails'
gem "debug", platforms: %i[ mri mingw x64_mingw ]
end
Install the dependencies
bundle install
Output
Check the installation
gem list rspec
gem list | grep rspec
Output
Generate basic rspec configuration
rails generate rspec:install
Output
Run rspec
bundle exec rspec
Output
Done
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