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Run only Focus Examples in RSpec like Cucumber

While I am coding using Vim as my editor, I don’t know an easy way to run only an example or a group examples of RSpec that I am working on until RSpec-2 came out. I know we can run spec . -e example to run only match examples in the previous version, but I feel that’s not a friendly way to do it. I like Cucumber’s @wip tag because I can specify on a scenario that I’m working on.

Thank for RSpec team for implementing a cool feature to be able filtering examples that we want to focus on while we are writing with tests.

# ...

RSpec.configure do |c|
  c.filter_run :focus => true
  c.run_all_when_everything_filtered = true
end

require "spec_helper"

describe "group 1" do
  it "group 1 example 1", :focus => true do
  end

  it "group 1 example 2" do
  end
end

describe "group 2" do
  it "group 2 example 1" do
  end
end

Run the tests to see the output:

$ rspec .
Run filtered using {:focus=>true}
.

Finished in 0.00026 seconds
1 example, 0 failures

After you passed the focus example(s), then you will want to run all examples, you could do it by just removing :focus => true from you example(s):

require "spec_helper"

describe "group 1" do
  it "group 1 example 1" do
  end

  it "group 1 example 2" do
  end
end

describe "group 2" do
  it "group 2 example 1" do
  end
end

Then rerun the tests, you will see the output of all tests:

$ rspec .
No examples were matched by {:focus=>true}, running all
...

Finished in 0.00048 seconds
3 examples, 0 failures

I would suggest you take a look at --tag option as well.