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We use RSpec because it is a de-facto Rails industry standard.

minitest was an interesting alternative because it was part of the Ruby standard library, but this is not the case any more. Also, at the time of writing, the real-world-rails collection shows that it is used in only 31 Gemfiles vs 135 Gemfiles for RSpec.

RSpec works reliably well for an overwhelming majority of people who are used to it, so I guess that is why they don't see a need to change.

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Jerome Dalbert

Principal Backend Software Engineer at StackShare