That has got to be one of the least usable blog layouts I've ever seen. It's all flash over substance, which is rather fitting because you can say the same thing about a lot of these testing libraries.

Factories are better than fixtures, I'll admit. All this other cruft that's grown up around Rails testing can be trivially replaced with Test::Unit with no real loss in readability and great improvements in overall simplicity. If Test::Unit is good enough to keep Rails itself on track it's certainly good enough to keep your app under control.

This vegetarian prefers Bacon.

http://github.com/chneukirchen/bacon/

+1 Steak is a wonderful alternative.