From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2009-03-30T09:42:20+09:00
Subject: Re: testy.rb - ruby testing that's mad at the world


On Mar 29, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Phlip wrote:

> I incredibly don't understand that. Our apps are big by Rails  
> standards, yet our test:code ratio is only 2.5:1. That's mostly  
> because we can't "refactor" the tests too much, or they are hard to  
> read.


i'm not talking about code to test ratios, but code to test  
*framework* ratios.  of course these numbers are a little bit high  
(whitespace, comments, etc) but




cfp:/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems > for gem in thoughtbot-* rspec*  
faker* mocha*;do echo $gem;find $gem/lib -type f|grep .rb|xargs -n1  
cat|wc -l;done
thoughtbot-factory_girl-1.2.0
      937
thoughtbot-shoulda-2.9.1
     3854
rspec-1.1.12
     8773
rspec-1.1.3
     7785
rspec-1.1.4
     8083
faker-0.3.1
      299
mocha-0.9.5
     3294


most people would consider an 8000 line rails app 'large'.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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