Rspec vs. TestUnit

Question

I\'m beginning the planning phase of creating a testing suite for my rails 3.0.8 application. I\'m trying to decide on which testing framework/gems to use. Normally I prefer

Answer 1

This Ruby Inside article, especially if you follow the links and read the comments, provides quite a thorough discussion of the relative merits of Test::Unit and RSpec. A key differentiator seems to be that:

• people who have non-technical clients are more likely to view RSpec and Cucumber more favourably;
• others are more likely to prefer more direct systems like Test::Unit.

Also see this part of Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial for a comparison of RSpec and Cucumber.