On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:38 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote: >> >> On 30 Jan 2010, at 06:45, David Chelimsky wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM, rogerdpack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> As a note of feedback, when I do a spec --help, I saw this line... >>>> >>>> -e, --example [NAME|FILE_NAME] Execute example(s) with matching >>>> name(s). If the argument is >>>> the path to an existing file >>>> (typically generated by a previous >>>> run using --format >>>> failing_examples:file.txt), then the examples >>>> on each line of that file will be >>>> executed. If the file is empty, >>>> all examples will be run (as if -- >>>> example was not specified). >>>> >>>> so I, trying to be clever, passed it something to match: >>>> >>>> E:\dev\ruby\spork>spec spec/spork/run_strategy/single* -e"the result" >>>> >>>> >>>> Finished in 0.125 seconds >>>> >>>> 0 examples, 0 failures >>>> >>>> >>>> Passing it the full test name seems to work, however: >>>> >>>> E:\dev\ruby\spork>spec spec/spork/run_strategy/single* -e"returns the >>>> result of the run_tests method from the forked child" >>>> ... >>>> >>>> Finished in 0.34375 seconds >>>> >>>> 3 examples, 0 failures >>>> >>>> >>>> Suggestion: >>>> >>>> rephrase the help as "runs the test whose name equals the one >>>> specified" (instead of using the word "matches" which to me somehow >>>> meant "regex"), or >>>> >>>> change the matching to be regex matching (this one is what I would >>>> personally prefer--then you don't have to put full test names on the >>>> command line). >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Actually, I'm thinking of not supporting this in rspec-2. I personally >>> find the line number much more useful, since you can just copy it >>> directly from the failure messages to re-run something: >>> >>> spec path/to/spec.rb:37 >> >> This is great except when you use macros or other tricks to generate >> examples - then there isn't a 1:1: mapping from line number to example. I >> often find it quite annoying to have to quote the whole example description, >> so I actually quite like Roger's idea about using regexp matching. > > Excellent news for you both. It turns out that the underlying > machinery is already in place for this in rspec2's new runner. Just > need to hook it to the command line. But right now, in > rspec-core-2.0.0.a2, you can say this in any Ruby that gets loaded > (like spec_helper.rb): > > Rspec::Core.configure do |c| > c.filter_run :description => /should match this string/ > end > > Hooking that from the CLI will be pretty simple, so coming soon.
Done: http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/blob/master/features/command_line/example_name_option.feature > > Cheers, > David > >> >>> WDYT? >>> >>>> -r >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> rspec-users mailing list >>>> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rspec-users mailing list >>> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >> >> cheers, >> Matt >> >> http://mattwynne.net >> +447974 430184 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >> > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
