As promised, we’ve just pushed out Episode 7. It covers the ins and outs of Ruby on Rails testing support, from the basic terminology, through the technology, and all the way to some of the current philosophies on the topic.

The Ruby on Rails community has recently discovered Behavior-Driven Development which is very cool, but I think a lot of mileage can be achieved with the technique it was spawned from, Kent Beck’s Test Driven Development (see the book of similar name).

For the new practitioner, getting any tests going is a step in the right direction. This happens to also be an area where the current literature for Ruby on Rails developers is growing stale, so we hope to add some useful content in future BuildingWebApps.com articles too.

If you have useful testing links or stories of how TDD saved your bacon, please let us know.