On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Sidu Ponnappa <ckponna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm cross posting a query on timing out tests that came up on our local ruby
> list:
>
>> In RSpec1, there was an option "timeout" using which we can fail all
>> the long running tests i.e. "spec --timeout 2 spec/" will fail those
>> tests which takes more than 2 seconds to run. It does not seem to be
>> existing in RSpec2. I saw the "filter_run" option as mentioned here:
>> http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/06/14/filtering-examples-in-rspec-2/.
>> Using this I can add "slow" tags to tests. But it is not same as the
>> "timeout" option. Can someone let me know whats the better approach to
>> time out slow running tests?
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

What about an around_filter?

require 'timeout'

RSpec.configure do |c|
  c.around(:each) do |example|
    Timeout::timeout(2) {
      example.run
    }
  end
end

http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/2-0/dir/hooks/around-hooks
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