# Autotest with rspec aint testing?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-with-rspec-aint-testing/116567>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 7, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-with-rspec-aint-testing/116567 "2007-10-07T14:05:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-with-rspec-aint-testing/116567/1 "2007-10-07T14:05:02Z")

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Hello,

I don’t know why autotest aint outputting any failed or success message  
to the screen?

C:\Instantrails\rails\_apps\testerne\>autotest  
loading autotest/rails\_rspec  
C:\Instantrails\ruby\bin\ruby -S script/spec -O spec/spec.opts  
spec/controllers  
/user\_controller\_spec.rb spec/models/user\_spec.rb  
spec/helpers/user\_helper\_spec.  
rb  
C:\Instantrails\ruby\bin\ruby -S script/spec -O spec/spec.opts  
spec/controllers  
/user\_controller\_spec.rb  
C:\Instantrails\ruby\bin\ruby -S script/spec -O spec/spec.opts  
spec/controllers  
/user\_controller\_spec.rb

Everytime I save the file it output

C:\Instantrails\ruby\bin\ruby -S script/spec -O spec/spec.opts  
spec/controllers  
/user\_controller\_spec.rb

Can someone tell me whats wrong??

…and thanks for help 🙂

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-with-rspec-aint-testing/116567/2 "2007-10-07T18:57:13Z")

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On 10/7/07, Jamal S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> /user\_controller\_spec.rb spec/models/user\_spec.rb
> 
> …and thanks for help 🙂  
> autotest/rails\_rspec looks for specs in spec/models, spec/views,  
> spec/controllers and spec/helpers. Is that where your specs are?

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-with-rspec-aint-testing/116567/3 "2007-10-07T20:07:57Z")

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David C. wrote:

> On 10/7/07, Jamal S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > /user\_controller\_spec.rb spec/models/user\_spec.rb
> > 
> > …and thanks for help 🙂  
> > autotest/rails\_rspec looks for specs in spec/models, spec/views,  
> > spec/controllers and spec/helpers. Is that where your specs are?

It works now, I just don’t get any colour output in my console command  
(windows=\>cmd)

This is my spec.opts file

–colour  
–format  
progress  
–loadby  
mtime  
–reverse  
–drb

and this is my autotest file

require ‘autotest/redgreen’  
require ‘win32console’  
require ‘autotest/timestamp’