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Welcome to ‘minitest’ world! Minitest is yet another ruby testing framework but it’s not a replacement to rspec. In rspec you can readily use things like ‘subject’, ‘metadata’ etc. However, minitest, as the name suggests, is a light-weight testing framework and does not include a lot of these features automatically. Here is a list of gems that you can use to enhance minitest-rails.

1. m

m is a test runner similar to rspec command in rspec framework. Using this we can run single test using line numbers too. Users who don’t like this gem can also run tests using default rake tasks provided by minitest.

2. minitest-metadata

metadata is one of the cool features in rspec. Using this we can tag scenarios across files. Unfortunately minitest doesn’t support this feature by default. We have to include a separate gem called minitest-metadata. We can implement rspec conditional hooks functionality through this…