Pest comes with Ray integration out of the box

Pest is an excellent test runner for PHP, that’s been getting more popular. It offers a developer friendly way of writing tests. At Spatie, we use it for all our projects.

Did you know that Pest comes with Ray support out of the box?

Let’s take a look at this very simple test from one of our own packages.

it('can get all holidays of the current year', function () {
    $holidays = Holidays::for(Belgium::make())->get();

    expect($holidays)->toBeArray();
});

Imagine now that you want to send the content of $holidays to Ray. Well, thanks to Pest’s integration with Ray, you can just chain a ray() call after expect like this.

it('can get all holidays of the current year', function () {
    $holidays = Holidays::for(Belgium::make())->get();

    expect($holidays)->ray()->toBeArray();
});

Pretty sweet! Only a couple of keystrokes are needed to send something to Ray!