[rspec-users] Different behavior for ":<line>" vs "--line_number <line" wrt filters?

[Kylo Ginsberg]

I just discovered that running a specific test or set of tests via ":<line>" doesn't honor filters but "--line_number <line>" does.  E.g.

> cat fun_with_line_numbers.rb

describe ":if => false", :if => false do

  it "should not run" do

    false

  end

end

> rspec -fd fun_with_line_numbers.rb:1

Run options: include {:locations=>{"./fun_with_line_numbers.rb"=>[1]}}

:if => false

  should not run

Finished in 0.00047 seconds

1 example, 0 failures

> rspec -fd fun_with_line_numbers.rb --line_number 1

Run options: include {:line_numbers=>[1]}

All examples were filtered out

Finished in 0.00004 seconds

0 examples, 0 failures

Is this difference a bug or a feature?  If the latter, is it documented behavior?

Thanks!

Kylo

[Myron Marston]

That sounds like a bug.  Can you report it to the rspec-core issue tracker[1]?

Thanks!

Myron

[1] https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues