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

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:<line number>

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!

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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!

Answer 6

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.