ruby-test-frameworks

A reference for writing and running Ruby tests with Minitest or Test::Unit, two Ruby testing libraries with similar but sometimes different method names.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding assertions, running selected tests, or working with setup and teardown methods in a Ruby project.
Why use it?
It helps prevent runtime errors caused by using an assertion or test-lifecycle method from the wrong library.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/st0012/ruby-skills/ruby-test-frameworks
Any agent
npx skills add st0012/ruby-skills --skill ruby-test-frameworks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/st0012/ruby-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,099 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00061 $0.02099
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01050
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00210

Measured 2d ago against content hash b2b9d7af7606, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ruby-test-frameworks scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/ruby-skills/skills/ruby-test-frameworks/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Minitest vs Test-Unit Divergences

Only covers where minitest and test-unit diverge. If something isn't listed here, it works the same in both.

Assertion Naming Mismatches

Using the wrong name causes NoMethodError.

Concept minitest test-unit
Exception assert_raises (plural) assert_raise (singular)
Throw assert_throws (plural) assert_throw (singular)
Collection inclusion assert_includes (plural) assert_include (singular)
Path exists assert_path_exists (with s) assert_path_exist (no s)
Negation pattern refute_* (e.g. refute_nil) assert_not_* (e.g. assert_not_nil)

test-unit aliases minitest names (assert_raises, refute_*, etc.), so minitest syntax works in test-unit but not vice versa.

Assertions That Only Exist in One Framework

test-unit only

Method Purpose
assert_nothing_raised Passes if block doesn't raise (also added by Rails on top of minitest)
assert_true / assert_false Checks for exactly true or false (not just truthy/falsy)
assert_boolean Checks value is true or false
assert_compare For <, <=, >, >= comparisons
assert_raise_with_message Checks both exception class and message
assert_raise_message Checks exception message only (any class)
assert_raise_kind_of Checks exception via kind_of? instead of exact class
assert_const_defined / assert_not_const_defined Check constant existence
assert_alias_method Verify method aliasing
assert_nothing_thrown Passes if block doesn't call throw
assert_block Passes if block returns truthy

minitest only

Method Purpose
assert_pattern / refute_pattern Ruby 3+ pattern matching (in expressions)
assert_silent Passes if block produces no stdout/stderr
assert_output Check stdout/stderr content
capture_io / capture_subprocess_io Capture output for inspection
skip_until(y, m, d, msg) Skip until a date, then fail as reminder
fail_after(y, m, d, msg) Pass until a date, then fail as reminder

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 178 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A b2b9d7af7606

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ruby-test-frameworks is a skill published in the GitHub repository st0012/ruby-skills (125 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,099 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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