Outputting (puts, print) in Rails Unit Tests

Question

How come commands like puts and print don't show up in the console when running ActiveSupport::TestCase tests?

Makes it very hard to debug if I can't outputs some inspections in a couple of methods.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the rails logger to see your output:

Rails::logger.debug "Interesting stuff"

Run tail -f log/test.log on the command line (from the project's root in a separate Terminal tab or window) to see the results.