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Nathan Long
Nathan Long

Reputation: 125912

How can I get Rspec to run all tests nested under a folder?

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:

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.)

Upvotes: 44

Views: 32015

Answers (2)

Priyanka Gajjar
Priyanka Gajjar

Reputation: 43

you can create a rake task

desc "Run PCMag tests"
  RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new('test') do |t|
  t.rspec_opts = ["-Ilib","--format documentation","--color"]
  t.pattern = ['spec/test/*.rb']
end

Then execute command rake test.

Above command will execute all .rb tests under folder 'test'

Please check following link for more details.

http://testautomationarchives.blogspot.in/2013/10/rspec-rake-framework-in-ruby-with.html

Upvotes: 4

farnoy
farnoy

Reputation: 7776

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)

Upvotes: 96

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