Question

How to organize rspec 2 tests into ‘unit’ (fast) and ‘integration’ (slow) categories?

• I want to be able to run all unit tests with just rspec command, but not the ‘integration’ tests.
• I want to be able to run only ‘integration’ tests.

Answer 1

We have groups of the same nature.
We run then one by one both on the local dev boxes and on the CI.

you can simply do

bundle exec rake spec:unit
bundle exec rake spec:integration
bundle exec rake spec:api

This is what our spec.rake looks like

  namespace :spec do
    RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:unit) do |t|
      t.pattern = Dir['spec/*/**/*_spec.rb'].reject{ |f| f['/api/v1'] || f['/integration'] }
    end

    RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:api) do |t|
      t.pattern = "spec/*/{api/v1}*/**/*_spec.rb"
    end

    RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:integration) do |t|
      t.pattern = "spec/integration/**/*_spec.rb"
    end
  end