On 7 Jun 2011, at 03:06, Patrick J. Collins wrote: >> rspec, not rake: > > Oops! I missed that.. So other than this debugger thing, are there any other > differences between rake spec and rspec spec?
Just a bit! They're two completely different commands that run two completely different computer programs. Rake is a tool for running tasks of any nature, which you can invoke with the command `rake`. If you run `rake -T` in your project, you'll see that `rake spec` is just one of many other tasks you can run that do all kinds of things, not just to do with running tests. RSpec is a tool for running BDD-style unit tests, which you can invoke with the command `rspec`. If you run `rspec --help` you'll see all the options you could pass to the rspec command. In the case of `rake spec` the `spec` part is the name of the Rake task which runs your RSpec tests. In the case of `rspec spec` the `spec` part is the folder where you want the `rspec` program to look for tests to run. Does that make more sense now? cheers, Matt -- Freelance programmer & coach Founder, http://relishapp.com +44(0)7974430184 | http://twitter.com/mattwynne _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
