Compare minitest to these popular alternatives based on real-world usage and developer feedback.

Rake is a Make-like program implemented in Ruby. Tasks and dependencies are specified in standard Ruby syntax. Rake has the following features: * Rakefiles (rake's version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard Ruby syntax. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?) * Users can specify tasks with prerequisites. * Rake supports rule patterns to synthesize implicit tasks. * Flexible FileLists that act like arrays but know about manipulating file names and paths. * Supports parallel execution of tasks.

An IRB alternative and runtime developer console.

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.

Code coverage for Ruby 1.9+ with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

Puma is a simple, fast, threaded, and highly concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications. Puma is intended for use in both development and production environments. It's great for highly concurrent Ruby implementations such as Rubinius and JRuby as well as as providing process worker support to support CRuby well.

Pg is the Ruby interface to the {PostgreSQL RDBMS}[http://www.postgresql.org/]. It works with {PostgreSQL 9.2 and later}[http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/]. A small example usage: #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'pg' # Output a table of current connections to the DB conn = PG.connect( dbname: 'sales' ) conn.exec( "SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity" ) do |result| puts " PID | User | Query" result.each do |row| puts " %7d | %-16s | %s " % row.values_at('procpid', 'usename', 'current_query') end end.

Rspec-rails is a testing framework for Rails 3+.

Automatic Ruby code style checking tool. Aims to enforce the community-driven Ruby Style Guide.

Byebug is a Ruby debugger. It's implemented using the TracePoint C API for execution control and the Debug Inspector C API for call stack navigation. The core component provides support that front-ends can build on. It provides breakpoint handling and bindings for stack frames among other things and it comes with an easy to use command line interface.

Uglifier minifies JavaScript files by wrapping UglifyJS to be accessible in Ruby.

TZInfo::Data contains data from the IANA Time Zone database packaged as Ruby modules for use with TZInfo.

Capybara is an integration testing tool for rack based web applications. It simulates how a user would interact with a website.

WebMock allows stubbing HTTP requests and setting expectations on HTTP requests.

Sass adapter for the Rails asset pipeline.

Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser. Among Nokogiri's many features is the ability to search documents via XPath or CSS3 selectors.

This is a JSON implementation as a Ruby extension in C.

Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.

A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.

This module allows Ruby programs to interface with the SQLite3 database engine (http://www.sqlite.org). You must have the SQLite engine installed in order to build this module. Note that this module is only compatible with SQLite 3.6.16 or newer.

Preloads your application so things like console, rake and tests run faster.

The Listen gem listens to file modifications and notifies you about the changes. Works everywhere!.

This gem provides jQuery and the jQuery-ujs driver for your Rails 4+ application.

Makes http fun! Also, makes consuming restful web services dead easy.

AWS Ruby Library for interfacing with Amazon Web Services including EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB and most of their other services as well. By http://www.appoxy.com.

Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL.

Ruby/Git is a Ruby library that can be used to create, read and manipulate Git repositories by wrapping system calls to the git binary.

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. It enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for custom Ruby constructs such as custom class level definitions.

Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.

CoffeeScript adapter for the Rails asset pipeline.

WebDriver is a tool for writing automated tests of websites. It aims to mimic the behaviour of a real user, and as such interacts with the HTML of the application.

Capistrano is a utility and framework for executing commands in parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH.

Databases on Rails. Build a persistent domain model by mapping database tables to Ruby classes. Strong conventions for associations, validations, aggregations, migrations, and testing come baked-in.

A debugging tool for your Ruby on Rails applications.

A simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by the Sinatra microframework style of specifying actions: get, put, post, delete.

Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call. Also see https://rack.github.io/.

A gem providing "time travel" and "time freezing" capabilities, making it dead simple to test time-dependent code. It provides a unified method to mock Time.now, Date.today, and DateTime.now in a single call.

Guard::RSpec automatically run your specs (much like autotest).

A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser.

Combine 'pry' with 'byebug'. Adds 'step', 'next', 'finish', 'continue' and 'break' commands to control execution.

CocoaPods manages library dependencies for your Xcode project. You specify the dependencies for your project in one easy text file. CocoaPods resolves dependencies between libraries, fetches source code for the dependencies, and creates and maintains an Xcode workspace to build your project. Ultimately, the goal is to improve discoverability of, and engagement in, third party open-source libraries, by creating a more centralized ecosystem.


Strategies for cleaning databases. Can be used to ensure a clean state for testing.

A simple, fast Mysql library for Ruby, binding to libmysql.

Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy.


The official AWS SDK for Ruby. Provides both resource oriented interfaces and API clients for AWS services.