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Mastering Sublime Text

By : Dan Peleg
Book Image

Mastering Sublime Text

By: Dan Peleg

Overview of this book

Sublime is the leading platform for developing websites, applications, and software. Sublime Text is a sophisticated, cross-platform text and source code editor. It supports a number of different programming languages and is extremely efficient and feature rich. With Sublime Text, programmers can develop their web applications faster and with more efficiency. This book will put you at the frontier of modern software development. It will teach you how to leverage Sublime for anything from mobile games to missile protection. Above all, this book will help you harness the power of other Sublime users and always stay on top. This book will show you how to get started, from basic installation through lightning fast code navigation and up to the development of your own plugins. It takes you from the early stages of navigating through the platform and moves on by teaching you how to fully customize your platform, test, debug, and eventually create and share your own plugins to help and lead this community forward. The book will then teach you how to efficiently edit text, primarily by using the keyboard. You will learn how to interact with the Sublime Text community using the mailing lists and IRC.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Sublime Text
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Testing in Ruby development


Ruby also has its built-in unit testing library called Test::Unit, but most people like using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) when using Ruby, and Rails especially. There are two popular BBD frameworks: RSpec and Cucumber.

Quote from the RSpec.info website:

"RSpec is a testing tool for the Ruby programming language. Born under the banner of Behavior-Driven Development, it is designed to make Test-Driven Development a productive and enjoyable experience."

Quote from the Cucumber repository:

"Cucumber is a tool that executes plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests."

We are lucky that there is a single package for Sublime that supports the three testing frameworks: Test::Unit, RSpec, and Cucumber. It's called RubyTest and can be found on https://github.com/maltize/sublime-text-2-ruby-tests.

Tip

The package is called sublime-text-2-ruby-tests but it supports both Sublime Text 2 and 3.

Using RubyTest for Sublime

To install the RubyTest package, we'll use Package...