[rspec-users] Can I get RSpec NOT to abort rake on failing specs?

[David Chelimsky]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> At work we've got a rather complex app with both specs and tests.  
> Our default rake task runs all our our tests and specs.  We've also  
> got separate rake tasks to run groups of tests and specs in the  
> various subdirectories.  The default task simply lists all the  
> individual tasks as pre-reqs.
>
> We do a lot of branching and merging, so we really want to run all  
> of the tests and specs to see all failures.
>
> We just realized that Rspec is aborting rake when a spec fails or  
> errors in an individual rake task.  I've been trying to fix this to  
> no avail.  I notice that SpecTask has an attribute accessor  
> fail_on_error which looks like it SHOULD prevent terminating rake if  
> it's set to false.  So I tried that and it doesn't seem to work.   
> Here's our projects lib/tasks/spec.rake, any ideas?
>
>
> def spec_tasks
>   %w{spec:controllers spec:models spec:helpers spec:views spec:lib}  
> + spec_subdirs.map {|t| "spec:#{t}"}
> end
>
> begin
>   require RAILS_ROOT + '/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/rake/spectask'
>
>   namespace :spec do
>    spec_subdirs.each do |task|
>      next if Rake::Task.task_defined?("spec:#{task}")

spec:models, views, controllers and helpers are all defined already in  
vendor/plugins/rspec-rails/tasks/rspec.rake, so the next keyword is  
being invoked for all of those. You'll need to undefined them before  
you redefine them here.

spec_tasks.each {|t| Rake::Task::TASKS.delete t}

Cheers,
David

>
>
>      desc "Run the specs under spec/#{task}"
>      Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(task) do |t|
>        t.fail_on_error = false
>        t.spec_opts = ['--options', "\"#{RAILS_ROOT}/spec/spec.opts\""]
>        t.spec_files = FileList["spec/#{task}/*_spec.rb"]
>      end
>
>      namespace(task) do
>        Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:rcov) do |t|
>          t.fail_on_error = false
>          t.spec_opts = ['--options', "\"#{RAILS_ROOT}/spec/spec.opts 
> \""]
>          t.rcov_opts = ['--include', "\"app/#{task}/.*.rb$\""]
>          t.rcov = true
>          t.spec_files = FileList["spec/#{task}/*_spec.rb"]
>        end
>      end
>    end
>   end
> rescue LoadError => e
>   puts "Spec tasks are not available - #{e}"
> end
>
> namespace :spec do
>   desc "Run each set of specs individually"
>   task :each => spec_tasks
> end
>
>
> -- 
> Rick DeNatale
>
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