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I am on a tight timeline with minimum resources for a project.
I would like to practice test driven development for this project, but realistically, i would not have time to learn any of the more sophisticated frameworks like Cucumber, Rspec, etc. And it would probably be counter-productive at this point anyway
What do you recommend is the minimum I do?
If you are very short on time, your best bet would be to read through the rails guide on testing. It equips you to get started quickly with Test:Unit.
Then you could write unit tests for the (model) methods that you care most about – things most critical to your app.
Optional suggestion – Rails testing is a landscape full of controversies and debates. If you want to save time, get started with (any) one thing (Test:Unit/shoulda/rspec…fixture/factory ..etc) and leave the discussions for leisure.