Project: RSpec Core 2.2

Publisher: RSpec

fail fast

Use the fail_fast option to tell RSpec to abort the run on first failure.

RSpec.configure {|c| c.fail_fast = true}

When an example fails, all of its related after blocks are run before exiting:

after(:each) # for that group
after(:all) # for that group
after(:suite)

Background

Given

a file named "spec/spec_helper.rb" with:

RSpec.configure {|c| c.fail_fast = true}

Scenarios

fail_fast with no failures (runs all examples)
fail_fast with first example failing (only runs the one example)
fail_fast with multiple files, second example failing (only runs the first two examples)

fail_fast with no failures (runs all examples)

Given

a file named "spec/example_spec.rb" with:

describe "something" do
  it "passes" do
  end

  it "passes too" do
  end
end

When

I run "rspec spec/example_spec.rb"

Then

the output should contain "2 examples, 0 failures"

fail_fast with first example failing (only runs the one example)

Given

a file named "spec/example_spec.rb" with:

require "spec_helper"
describe "something" do
  it "fails" do
    fail
  end

  it "passes" do
  end
end

When

I run "rspec spec/example_spec.rb -fd"

Then

the output should contain "1 example, 1 failure"

fail_fast with multiple files, second example failing (only runs the first two examples)

Given

a file named "spec/example_1_spec.rb" with:

require "spec_helper"
describe "something" do
  it "passes" do
  end

  it "fails" do
    fail
  end
end

describe "something else" do
  it "fails" do
    fail
  end
end

And

a file named "spec/example_2_spec.rb" with:

require "spec_helper"
describe "something" do
  it "passes" do
  end
end

describe "something else" do
  it "fails" do
    fail
  end
end

When

I run "rspec spec"

Then

the output should contain "2 examples, 1 failure"

Last published almost 5 years ago by dchelimsky.

fail fast

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