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testfixtures

Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database

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5Mentions
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1.2KGitHub stars
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Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database

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HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-25 17:35:10 UTC to 2021-05-16 16:33:18 UTC.

01232016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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RoR is an awesome framework that has (almost) everything you need to build monolithic web apps. Go is a different story. You need to join the pieces together to make something functional. You will probably need: - A router like [Gin](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin) - A [XSRF token generator and validator](https://github.com/golang/net/blob/master/xsrftoken/xsrf.go) - An ORM like [Gorm](https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm) or [XORM](https://github.com/go-xorm/xorm) - A template lib like the one that comes with the stdlib - Node for front-end (ugh, this is the harder part) - The testing library in stdlib plus maybe [testify](https://github.com/stretchr/testify) - etc... Many nice things are missing. Some were [shamelessy copied by other people](https://github.com/go-testfixtures/testfixtures). Some you may need to implement yourself. The big a
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dvantages is that Go has much better performance, and run on Windows, etc.
In Go best practices, six years in

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