rspec-rerun reruns failed RSpec examples (for brittle tests).

It writes failed examples to the file rspec.failures and feeds these back to RSpec via -e.

Usage

(For RSpec 2 use version '~> 0.3.1'. )

# Gemfile
group :development, :test do
  gem 'rspec-rerun'
end

# Rakefile
require 'rspec-rerun/tasks'
task default: 'rspec-rerun:spec'

echo rspec.failures >> .gitignore

Run rake or rake rspec-rerun:spec. Failed examples will be rerun automatically.

Parameters

The rspec-rerun:spec task accepts the following parameters:

• retry_count: number of retries, defaults to 1

e.g. rake rspec-rerun:spec[3]. ZSH users will want to try noglob or quote around the task name: rake 'rspec-rerun:spec[3]'.

You can set the following global environment variables:

• RSPEC_RERUN_RETRY_COUNT: number of retries, defaults to the value of retry_count or 1
• RSPEC_RERUN_EXCLUDE_PATTERN: rspec will skip those files which are matched using this glob
• RSPEC_RERUN_PATTERN: spec file pattern, defaults to the value defined by RSpec::Core::RakeTask
• RSPEC_RERUN_TAG: only execute the tag specified
• RSPEC_RERUN_VERBOSE: if 'false', don't show the rspec command invoked by Rake

History

Rerunning failed specs has been a long requested feature #456 in RSpec. A viable approach was suggested in #596. The infrastructure from that pull request was merged and released with rspec-core 2.11, which enabled re-running specs outside of RSpec, as described in our blog post. This gem has evolved from it.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

Copyright and License

MIT License, see LICENSE for details.

(c) 2012-2015 Artsy Inc., Daniel Doubrovkine and Contributors