Mocking Screw-Unit
I’m big on tests. Unit testing helps me clarify my thinking on problems and ensure that my code works well. When writing tests, it’s essential to have a good mocking framework to separate the things you are testing from the things you are not. In Ruby, I like using flexmock for Test::Unit and rSpec’s built in mocking framework when using it. In Javascript though, screw-unit doesn’t really come with a way to mock by default. (As an aside, screw-unit totally rocks for testing js.)
Thankfully, my coworker Topper (who’s a kickass dev, btw), has been playing around with adding mocking to screw-unit. He’s got a fork on github, docs at the previous link, and a quick example blog post. Click through and check this shit out, cause it’s hot.
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