I've seen many Rails beginners feeling overwhelmed by the extensive amount of tools they can use to start testing their apps. This is a nice post for them, as i

I've seen many Rails beginners feeling overwhelmed by the extensive amount of tools they can use to start testing their apps. This is a nice post for them, as it gives a good overview of some of those tools and how they fit together. I would have written a different title though, because as the last paragraph indicates, the post recommends some tools but not best practices (which at this basic level would be things like: minimize the interaction with the database and external systems, extract duplicated test code to helpers, label your tests with descriptive names, etc).