How do you run a single test spec file in RSpec

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I want to be able to run a single spec file s tests  mdash  for the one file I m editing  for example   rake spec executes all the specs   My project is not a Rails project  so rake spec doc doesn t work   Don t know if this matters  but here is my directory structure      Rakefile   lib   lib cushion rb   lib cushion   lib cushion doc rb   lib cushion db rb   spec   spec spec opts   spec spec helper rb   spec db spec rb

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This question is an old one  but it shows up at the top of Google when searching for how to run a single test   I don t know if it s a recent addition  but to run a single test out of a spec you can do the following   rspec path to spec  lt line number gt    where -line number- is a line number that contains part of your test   For example  if you had a spec like   1   2  it  should be awesome  do 3    foo   3 4    foo should eq 3  5  end 6    Let s say it s saved in spec models foo spec rb   Then you would run   rspec spec models foo spec rb 2   and it would just run that one spec   In fact  that number could be anything from 2 to 5   Hope this helps

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Lets say  you re running test for creating todo  You can always run  that specific todo spec code using the file crete spec rb file as below         rspec spec features controller spec file name rb     Example      Creating  rspec spec features todos create spec rb    Editing   rspec spec features todos edit spec rb    Deleting  rspec spec features todos destroy spec rb   If you want to run all the specs in one single short      rspec    If you want to run all the specs in a specific controller user this     rspec spec feaures controller name    Example    rspec spec features todos   Hope it gives you more understanding

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specky vim

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http   github com grosser single test lets you do stuff like    rake spec user           run spec model user spec rb  searches for user  spec rb  rake test users c        run test functional users controller test rb rake spec user token     run the first spec in user spec rb that matches  token  rake test user token     run all tests in user test rb that match  token  rake test last rake spec last

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Or you can skip rake and use the  rspec  command   rspec path to spec file rb   In your case I think as long as your   spec db spec rb file includes the appropriate helpers  it should work fine    If you re using an older version of rspec it is   spec path to spec file rb

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Alternatively  have a look at autotest   Running autotest in a command window will mean that the spec file will be executed whenever you save it  Also  it will be run whenever the file you are speccing is run   For instance  if you have a model spec file called person spec rb  and a model file that it is speccing called person rb  then whenever you save either of these files from your editor  the spec file will be executed

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I was having trouble getting any of these examples to work  maybe because the post is old and the commands have changed   After some poking around I found this works   rspec spec models user spec rb  That will run just the single file and provides useful output in the terminal

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Ruby 1 9 2 and Rails 3 have an easy way to run one spec file      ruby -I spec spec models user spec rb   Explanation    ruby command tends to be faster than the rake command -I spec means  include the  spec  directory when looking for files  spec models user spec rb is the file we want to run

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from help  spec -h    -l  --line LINE NUMBER           Execute example group or example at given line                                    does not work for dynamically generated examples    Example   spec spec runner spec rb -l 162

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If you installed rspec as a plugin rather than as a gem  then you won t have the spec executable   At any rate  All you need to do is run the file using ruby  The rspec code is clever enough to run the tests for you   eg   ruby myclass spec rb

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You can also use the actual text of the  e xample test case with -e    So for   it  shows the plane arrival time    you can use  rspec path to spec file rb -e  shows the plane arrival time    scripts spec path to spec file rb -e  shows the plane arrival time    no need for rake here

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To run all of your rspec files  rspec  note  you must be in the root of your project   To run one rspec file  rspec  path to spec rb   note  replace  path to spec rb  with your path  Quotation marks optional   To run one rspec test from one file  rspec  path to spec rb 7   note   7 is the line number where the test starts

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specky vim

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The raw invocation    rake spec SPEC spec controllers sessions controller spec rb             SPEC OPTS  -e   should log in with cookie      Now figure out how to embed this into your editor

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Although many great answers were written to this question  none of them uses the Rspec tags approach    I use tags to run one or more specs in different files -- only those related to my current development task   For example  I add the tag  dev  with the value  current    it  creates an user   dev   current do   user   create  user    expect user persisted   to be truthy end   then I run  bundle exec rspec   --tag dev current   Different tags values can be set in individual specs or groups

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