Sure, everything could probably be tracked back to the good golden years, but who was really doing TDD before Rails? I was doing Java back (during Kent Beck da

Sure, everything could probably be tracked back to the good golden years, but who was really doing TDD before Rails? I was doing Java back (during Kent Beck days of XP etc) and although I had heard of JUnit (and even heard Kent Beck preach about this at a conference) and it sounded cool, no team or company I knew was using it seriously. It's only when Rails came around where if (I believe if memory serves me right) the default controller/views generators created tests automatically. Ruby being a dynamic language and no compile step, you couldn't prove correctness before running it, meant you were skating on thin ice if you didn't write tests.