Question

My rspec test suite is slow. It takes about half a decade to run all the tests. While it’s running, I see only that tests are failing.

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Then, after staring at this for a few years, I finally get a listing of what is wrong.

Failures:

  172481) Foobar should barfoo the barbaz while quux is set to narf
     Failure/Error: before { click_link "Enable narf" }
     ArgumentError:
       wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)
     # ./app/helpers/foobar_helper.rb:22:in `gobble'
     # ./app/controllers/barbaz_controller.rb:18:in `omgwtf'
     # (eval):2:in `click_link'
     # ./spec/requests/metasyntactic_spec.rb:43:in `block (5 levels) in <top (required)>'

Is there a way to tell rspec it should display the errors directly – while running the test suite?

Answer 1

You can use the fuubar format, see the doc here : https://github.com/jeffkreeftmeijer/fuubar/