# "rake TEST=test/unit/whatever\_test.rb" is executed 3 times **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 3, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-test-test-unit-whatever-test-rb-is-executed-3-times/187969 "2010-05-03T14:15:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damaris)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-test-test-unit-whatever-test-rb-is-executed-3-times/187969/1 "2010-05-03T14:15:15Z")
Hi you all, I execute "rake TEST= test/unit/whatever\_test.rb, and it is executed 3 times. That it, the output is something like: c:/ruby … “test/unit/whatever\_test.rb” Loaded suite … Started F Finished in 0.8 … 1 tests, 1 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors c:/ruby … “test/unit/whatever\_test.rb” Loaded suite … Started F Finished in 0.8 … 1 tests, 1 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors c:/ruby … “test/unit/whatever\_test.rb” Loaded suite … Started F Finished in 0.8 … 1 tests, 1 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors And at the end: Errors running test:units, test:functionals and test:integration! Is this a normal behaviour? The test is the default one when you create a model and I’m using Ruby 1.8.6. and Rails 2.1.2. rake version is 0.8.6 ---
**Author:** ![damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damaris)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-test-test-unit-whatever-test-rb-is-executed-3-times/187969/2 "2010-05-03T15:21:52Z")
On May 3, 1:15 pm, Damaris F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi you all, > > Is this a normal behaviour? > The test is the default one when you create a model and I’m using Ruby > 1.8.6. and Rails 2.1.2. rake version is 0.8.6 If you want to run just one test I’d do ruby -Itest test/unit/ foo\_test.rb I think the issue is that the default task in a rails project runs 3 sub tasks: test:units, test:functionals and test:integration. Each of these tasks then pickup the TEST environment variable you’ve set Fred ---
**Author:** ![damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damaris)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-test-test-unit-whatever-test-rb-is-executed-3-times/187969/3 "2010-05-03T22:13:23Z")
Or you could try rake test:units TEST=test/unit/whatever\_test.rb if it is a unit test for example ---
**Author:** ![damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damaris)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-test-test-unit-whatever-test-rb-is-executed-3-times/187969/4 "2010-05-13T18:18:46Z")
Ok, thanks, that works.