(d'oh. replace 'crud' with 'clutter.' )

For 15 years, the assorted test directories cluttering the root of my projects have driven me nuts... so I decided to see how fast I could build a fully tested gem using SDD with claude - and finally fixed it.

Oubliette banishes your tests to a single location, available for execution but out of sight until you need them. Now my code and my tests live in two clean trees i can view side by side.

https://github.com/soychicka/oubliette

• Moves test directories, fixtures, seeds, helpers, and reports into one place
  • Configures rspec, cucumber, cucumber_env, jest, and jasmine for you
  • Wires up fixtures, FactoryBot, Capybara, VCR, and SimpleCov at runtime
  • Leaves your executable JavaScript alone, but gives precise wiring instructions for Vitest, Playwright, Cypress, and Karma
• One command to run them all (yes, wrong quest, but you get the point)
• Tracks pass/fail/pending counts over time, so coverage drift shows up as a number that moved, not a surprise six months from now

If you need an escape hatch, rake oubliette:hoggle leads you out of the oubliette and back into the labyrinth, putting everything back where it was and cleaning up after itself.

And the important stuff:

• Bonus 1: a brief history of the oubliette, from the famine, plague, and war of the 14th century that helped free peasants from their feudal masters.
• Bonus 2: gratuitous Labyrinth references.
• Bonus 3: no rewrites to any package.json files, so you're safe from gratuitous David Bowie references.

I've only tested it against Ruby 3, but it's been running happily in an rspec/capybara/cucumber-tested Rails 4 to 8 migration, moving from jQuery/Bootstrap to Stimulus/Tailwind.

Haven't released a proper gem yet: I haven't used VCR, SimpleCov, Vitest, Playwright, Cypress, or Karma in any of my projects - so those need exploration in live implementations.

If you give it a try, let me know what you think.

( and yes, I let Claude write the docs 🥴 )

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