Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by aomega08 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:59PM (#13662044)

I love that book and recommend it to anyone. The only thing I don't really like is its focus on MiniTest when practically everyone in the Ruby ecosystem has moved to RSpec. If I had to find a reason for this choice I'd say, one less gem to install and configure, and again convention over configuration.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by bdcravens on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:02PM (#13662553)

I think MiniTest is a good starting point even if you end up going with Rspec, as MiniTest/jUnit style testing feels a little bit lower level. In the same sense, the book implements authentication from scratch, whereas many apps will end up using a library like Devise.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by mathgeek on Thursday February 16, 2017 @03:38PM (#13663367)

> I don't really like is its focus on MiniTest when practically everyone in the Ruby ecosystem has moved to RSpec

Is this true? I know RSpec is the popular one in open source, but last I checked the two were still pretty even as far as big name recommendations. I used to believe RSpec was the default when I first started Rails development, but as a professional dev I had seen plenty of Minitest implementation.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by RobertKerans on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:21AM (#13666767)

It's been a while since I went through it, but did the tutorial not originally use RSpec, then switch it out at about version 4 (along with a few other tools) so that everything in the book made use of the most basic, out-of-the-box tools (as much as possible)?

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