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

Jonathan Tran picture Jonathan Tran · Sep 27, 2008 · Viewed 217.7k times · Source

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 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

Answer

Cameron Booth picture Cameron Booth · Sep 27, 2008

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