How to get rspec-2 to give the full trace associated with a test failure?

Question

Right now if I run my test suite using rake spec I get an error:

1) SegmentsController GET \'index\' should work
   Failure/Error: get \'index\'
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Answer 1

I don't know how to get the controller error to show up in rspec. Sometimes it shows up but I don't know what conditions cause it to show up. Here is a way to see the error fairly quickly though:

Open another terminal session and run:

tail -f log/test.log

Then go back to the terminal session and run just the spec that had the error:

bin/rspec -b spec/requests/posts/index_spec.rb

Go back to the tail of the log and you should see the error, hopefully without too much other stuff surrounding it (because you ran the failing test by itself).