# Rcov coverage question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcov-coverage-question/155054>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 7, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcov-coverage-question/155054 "2008-12-07T01:53:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcov-coverage-question/155054/1 "2008-12-07T01:53:37Z")

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I am using the following Rake task in a rails project:

[http://pastie.org/332921](http://pastie.org/332921)

Can someone explain to me why running “rake test:coverage” seems to run  
tests for all gems and libraries used by my app instead of just the  
tests that are in my test/\*\* directory?

For instance, RedCloth, gravtastic, builder, stomp and xml-simple are  
out output in the coverage html data instead of just the app tests?