[Rspec-devel] experimental output tweak

[David Astels]

On 7-Jun-06, at 2:32 AM, aslak hellesoy wrote:

> On Rspec trunk the default output will now look like:
>
> --------------------------
> ..........................
>
> The dashes are printed before the specs are run, and it represents the
> total number of specs. It can be useful if there are many (slow) specs
> to see how much is left
>
> I'm not sure I like it though - it's noisy, and specs should be fast,
> in which case it's not really needed. But in Rails things tend to be
> slow.
>
> Anyhow - the underlying change opens up for better progress reporting
> for other reporters, such as Dave's cocoa runner/reporter. I will also
> need it in my upcoming port of TDDMate (BDDMate).
>
> If people don't like this for the textual output we can easily  
> remove it.

-1

It adds noise without useful information

dave