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@rafaelfranca
Importance score: 5 • Posted: February 27, 2026 at 21:14
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Consistency in the bigger one. The main application was written with minitest (test-unit) even before rspec was created, so to avoid splitting investment in build tooling for two frameworks we had to chose one, and the one with more tests written was minitest.
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Continuation from influential Rails core member explaining choice of Minitest over RSpec for consistency in large codebase.
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