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Re:A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subs... by henry700 on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:04PM (#29848202)
Not if you follow the One True Way of Unit Testing (tm) where the Mongoid lib would have been mocked away, and the test would pass :)

Integration tests might've done the job here.

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Re:A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subs... by montblanc on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:27AM (#29849787)
You dont mock the db layer, i dont do that at least, hell no. Let the db be hit, check that the records it returns make sense. Thats how I roll at least.
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Re:A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subs... by henry700 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @11:08PM (#29870521)
Didn't want to aim at you with the reply, just remembered the collective delusion of 100% coverage unit testing zealots and how this would ironically fail to catch this.

You'd be surprised how far people go to shoot themselves in the foot.

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