TIL about ExUnit's global assert_receive_timeout default config

We’ve had a persistent problem at work with Elixir tests of Phoenix Channel interactions failing in CI only. The simplest push + reply you can imagine may, due to the vagaries of low-end, shared CI hardware, wind up taking a full second to receive a reply. 🥴

I’d been fixing these one at a time by adding a third timeout parameter to my assert_receive, assert_push, assert_reply, and assert_broadcast calls.

TIL you can instead just do:

config :ex_unit, assert_receive_timeout: if(ci?, do: 2_000, else: 100)

(In the main ExUnit docs, search for :assert_receive_timeout.)

Phoenix LiveView 0.19.5 and later include my very modest PR to use this as the default timeout for LiveView’s message-receiving test functions too (assert_patch, assert_redirect, assert_push_event, and assert_reply).