Hey Mike,
I wanted to write out a full reply rather than continue a back-and-forth Twitter conversation. I don't want to be "that guy" that publicly does a "drive-by-shit-on" regarding an open-source project. I realize how much time and effort it takes to keep a project like minitest-rails running!
I think my problem with minitest-rails is part philosophical, part practical. Practically, it was a bitch to get working. That's weird to me. I figured the point of minitest-rails would be to just drop it into my Rails project's gemfile and minitest should "just work". But after about 3 hours of trying, it just wouldn't. I ended up writing my own helpers to get minitest working with Rails, and it ended up being a) simpler than I expected, and b) much clearer than what minitest-rails was doing. I'm sure I maybe just missed a few details here and there with minitest-rails that prevented my tests from working, but I'll attach the very minimal code that was required to get minitest working. My question is - why can't