How To Install ruby-maxitest on Debian 12

Learn how to install ruby-maxitest on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ruby-maxitest is Minitest + all the features you always wanted

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-maxitest on Debian 12.

What is ruby-maxitest

ruby-maxitest is:

Features:

  1. Ctrl+c stops tests and prints failures
  2. pastable rerun snippet for failures (disabled/integrated on rails 5)
  3. multiple before & after blocks
  4. around blocks around { |t| Dir.chdir(…) { t.call } }
  5. red-green output (disabled/integrated on rails 5)
  6. mtest executable to run by line number and by folder (disabled/integrated on rails 5)
  7. full backtrace for errors and assertions with verbose (-v)
  8. And more!

There are three methods to install ruby-maxitest on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ruby-maxitest Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-maxitest using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-maxitest

Install ruby-maxitest Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-maxitest using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ruby-maxitest

Install ruby-maxitest Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-maxitest using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-maxitest

How To Uninstall ruby-maxitest on Debian 12

To uninstall only the ruby-maxitest package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-maxitest

Uninstall ruby-maxitest And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-maxitest and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-maxitest

Remove ruby-maxitest Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-maxitest configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-maxitest

Remove ruby-maxitest configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ruby-maxitest configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-maxitest

Dependencies

ruby-maxitest have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-maxitest package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.