Question

I like to run my Rspec tests with Spork running in a separate tab. I usually run my tests using rspec spec, by which I intend to say “search recursively and run everything in the spec folder.”

I’ve recently realized that this does not actually run all my tests. I now have a spec file in spec/requests which isn’t being run. I know this because I’ve edited one of the tests to raise an error, and run the following:

• rspec spec – no error raised.
• rspec spec/requests – still no error raised, and 0 examples, 0 failures!
• rspec spec/requests/my_controller.rb – bingo. 17 examples, 1 failure and the failure has my error message.

Why isn’t Rspec finding all my test files? Is this a matter of configuration, or do I need to use a different command to run my tests?

I need to run all my tests at once to ensure that I’m not introducing regressions.

(Not using Spork makes no difference, by the way.)

Answer 1

Rspec should already look recursively through the directory you named and find all tests. Note however, that it’s looking for files ending in _spec.rb. Maybe some of your files are not named correctly?

If you need to be more specific about which files it should find, you can also use the --pattern option. For example: rspec --pattern spec/requests/*_spec.rb. (Option --pattern is equal to -P. Taken from rspec --help)