How do you run a single test/spec file in RSpec?

Question

I want to be able to run a single spec file\'s tests — for the one file I\'m editing, for example. rake spec executes all the specs. My project is not a

Answer 1

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.