[RSPEC] [CUCUMBER] have autotest running *only* the features

Testing RSpec
1

Hi,

I am joining a project which is using Rails 2.0.2, Rspec as a plugin
1.1.4
The problem is specs take 10 minutes to run and I have no time to
optimize
them now.

I am adding cucumber features and would like to run them with autotest
(ZenTest 4.0.0).
Is there a way to have autotest running only the features? It would
save
me a LOT of time …

In the past, I think I managed to do it with a /script/autofeatures_only
looking like:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

ENV[‘AUTOFEATURE’] = ‘true’ # run only cucumber features
ENV[‘RSPEC’] = ‘false’ # ONLY the features, not the spec! NOT allows
autotest to discover rspec
system((RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin|mingw/ ? ‘autotest.bat’ : ‘autotest’),
*ARGV) ||
$stderr.puts(“Unable to find autotest. Please install ZenTest or fix
your
PATH”)

My rspec/lib/autotest/discover.rb looks like:
Autotest.add_discovery do
“rspec” if File.directory?(‘spec’) && ENV[‘RSPEC’] == true
end

Does anyone have a similar set up with different versions of RSpec? I am
planning to upgrade Rails and RSpec in the coming months.

Thanks,

JM

2

I’ll reply to my own question as I have found an “hacked” solution.

In Autotest::Rspec (rspec/lib/autotest/rspec-rb)
I redefined make_test_cmd like this:
def make_test_cmd(files_to_test)
# FIXME JM HACK!
if ENV[‘AUTOFEATURE’] =~ /true/i
return “#{ruby} -S #{spec_command} #{add_options_if_present}
spec/truth_spec.rb”
else
return “#{ruby} -S #{spec_command} #{add_options_if_present}
#{files_to_test.keys.flatten.join(’ ')}”
end
end

truth_spec is a dummy spec :
describe “Truth” do
it “should be true” do
true.should be_true
end
end

Doing this, autotest with AUTOFEATURE= true first runs the “specs” but
only
finds truth_spec which takes about 1s to run and then run the features.

Jean-Michel Garnier wrote:

save
*ARGV) ||
planning to upgrade Rails and RSpec in the coming months.

Thanks,

JM

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