RubyFIT

Framework for Integrated Tests in Ruby

This is the home page of the RubyFIT project, aimed at porting the original Framework for Integrated Tests written in Java to the Ruby world. The official project page is hosted on RubyForge.

The main developer and project maintainer is Giulio Piancastelli.

News

16.V.2006 — RubyFIT 1.1 has been released. This first release of the software is compatible with version 1.1 of the FIT specification. (See also LatestChanges for a general list of new features to be found in implementations compliant to the FIT 1.1 specification.)

For more unofficial news, occasional reflexive soliloquy about RubyFIT happens sometimes on the RubyFit track in the project maintainer’s personal weblog, The Long Dark Tea-time of the Blog.

Installation

You need to have RubyGems installed.

Then, just issue the following command from a console prompt:

gem install fit

and you are ready to use the framework.

Documentation

There are several sources for RubyFIT documentation:

• a first brief tutorial entitled RubyFIT Basics, explaining the fundamentals of programming the basic fixtures included in the framework.
• A second brief tutorial entitled RubyFIT Advanced, explaining topics like the use of custom types in fixtures and how to group fixtures in modules, also documenting the FitTask Rake task to include the run of FIT tests in your automated build process.
• The official FIT wiki covers FIT concepts and topics common to all FIT implementations. See in particular the FitDocumentation as a starting point.
• Fitnesse is a standalone wiki integrating many flavors of the FIT acceptance testing framework. On the website you can find additional documentation about general FIT fixtures and the like.
• RubyFIT can be run from within Fitnesse: Cory Foy has written a basic tutorial on making the two work together.

If you know of additional documentation or tutorials missing, please send an email to the project maintainer and it will be added to the list.

Credits

Micah Martin
Jim Hughes
Brian Marick
Bret Pettichord