As I'm writing some tests for a recent feature, I end up with various test cases that make a variety of assertions.
assert_equal resp_body["id"], expected_id
# ...
assert_not resp_body["items"].empty?The first assertion reads pretty naturally. The second one requires some extra
mental parsing because of the _not and then the "negative" check of
#empty?.
Another way to express this that might read more naturally is with
#refute.
refute resp_body["items"].empty?This says that we refute that items is empty, so the assertion should fail if empty.
Ruby is flexible in other ways. We may also prefer to write it as:
assert resp_body["items"].present?Or we could even take advantage of a more specific variant of refute with
#refute_empty:
refute_empty resp_body["items"]