On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM, rogerdpack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a note of feedback, when I do a spec --help, I saw this line... > > -e, --example [NAME|FILE_NAME] Execute example(s) with matching > name(s). If the argument is > the path to an existing file > (typically generated by a previous > run using --format > failing_examples:file.txt), then the examples > on each line of that file will be > executed. If the file is empty, > all examples will be run (as if -- > example was not specified). > > so I, trying to be clever, passed it something to match: > > E:\dev\ruby\spork>spec spec/spork/run_strategy/single* -e"the result" > > > Finished in 0.125 seconds > > 0 examples, 0 failures > > > Passing it the full test name seems to work, however: > > E:\dev\ruby\spork>spec spec/spork/run_strategy/single* -e"returns the > result of the run_tests method from the forked child" > ... > > Finished in 0.34375 seconds > > 3 examples, 0 failures > > > Suggestion: > > rephrase the help as "runs the test whose name equals the one > specified" (instead of using the word "matches" which to me somehow > meant "regex"), or > > change the matching to be regex matching (this one is what I would > personally prefer--then you don't have to put full test names on the > command line). > > Thoughts?
Actually, I'm thinking of not supporting this in rspec-2. I personally find the line number much more useful, since you can just copy it directly from the failure messages to re-run something: spec path/to/spec.rb:37 WDYT? > -r > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
