Focusing on a Single Test

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Jan 2, 2014, 10:36:47 AM1/2/14

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Hi everyone,

i was wondering if there is or if anyone could find useful the usage of

code based sulutions to run a single test. Let me explain.

Using Guard and Spork (or Spring) when write some specs, all the specs

in a specific file are executed. Some times, I've different tests on a single

file and it takes several seconds. I find my self commenting the tests that

passes and I leave the new ones uncommented.

It works, but it's not productive. I know I can run a specific test frome the

command line using the -e option, but this is not the solution I need, as far

as I use Spork and the load time is pretty long.

I really love the approach taken from Jasmine and Mocha in the JS world.

For example, using Jasmine, if I change it to iit, I'll run only one test. Here

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JASMINE MOCHA

Focus on a single test change it to iit change it to it.only

Skip a test change it to xit change it to it.skip

Focus on a describe block change describe to ddescribe change describe to describe.only

Skip a describe block change describe to xdescribe change describe to describe.skip

My queston is: do you know any solution which can be used in Rspec to

simulate this behaviour. I couldn't find it.

Thanks a lot.

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Jan 2, 2014, 11:18:29 AM1/2/14

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You can configure RSpec to run only examples tagged with a specific key, such as `:focus`:

In addition, RSpec 2.14+ has `fit` as an alias for `it "...", :focus => true`:

There's also `xit`, which makes an example temporarily pending:

At the example group level, there are not yet shortcuts like `xdescribe` or `fdescribe`, but they're planned for RSpec 3:

HTH,

Myron

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Jan 2, 2014, 11:29:29 AM1/2/14

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Thanks a lot fot the complete answer. I'll try them out.

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