How to run a single RSpec test?

Question

I have the following file:

/spec/controllers/groups_controller_spec.rb

What command in terminal do I use to run just that spec and in what

Answer 1

My preferred method for running specific tests is slightly different - I added the lines

  RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.filter_run :focus => true
    config.run_all_when_everything_filtered = true
  end

To my spec_helper file.

Now, whenever I want to run one specific test (or context, or spec), I can simply add the tag "focus" to it, and run my test as normal - only the focused test(s) will run. If I remove all the focus tags, the run_all_when_everything_filtered kicks in and runs all the tests as normal.

It's not quite as quick and easy as the command line options - it does require you to edit the file for the test you want to run. But it gives you a lot more control, I feel.

Answer 2

In rails 5,

I used this way to run single test file(all the tests in one file)

rails test -n /TopicsControllerTest/ -v

Class name can be used to match to the desired file TopicsControllerTest

My class class TopicsControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest

Output :

If You want you can tweak the regex to match to single test method \TopicsControllerTest#test_Should_delete\

rails test -n /TopicsControllerTest#test_Should_delete/ -v

Answer 3

For single example of spec file you need to add line number at the last , For Example

rspec spec/controllers/api/v1/card_list_controller_spec.rb:35

For single file you can specify your file path, For Example

rspec spec/controllers/api/v1/card_list_controller_spec.rb

For Whole Rspec Example in spec folder, you can try with this command

bundle exec rspec spec

Answer 4

You can pass a regex to the spec command which will only run it blocks matching the name you supply.

spec path/to/my_spec.rb -e "should be the correct answer"

2019 Update: Rspec2 switched from the 'spec' command to the 'rspec' command.

Answer 5

Another common mistake is to still have or have upgraded an older Rails app to Rails 5+ and be putting require 'spec_helper' at the top of each test file. This should changed to require 'rails_helper'. If you are seeing different behavior between the rake task (rake spec) and when you run a single spec (rspec path/to/spec.rb), this is a common reason

the best solution is to

1) make sure you are using require 'rails_helper' at the top of each of your spec files — not the older-style require 'spec_helper' 2) use the rake spec SPEC=path/to/spec.rb syntax

the older-style rspec path/to/spec.rb I think should be considered out-of-vogue by the community at this time in 2020 (but of course you will get it to work, other considerations aside)

Answer 6

Usually I do:

rspec ./spec/controllers/groups_controller_spec.rb:42

Where 42 represents the line of the test I want to run.

EDIT1:

You could also use tags. See here.

EDIT 2:

Try:

bundle exec rspec ./spec/controllers/groups_controller_spec.rb:42