I’ve been trying to separate out some fast specs in a Rails app in a
Gary Bernhardt style[1], and I experimented with using tags.
The problem with using tags is that in order to scan the specs for
examples that match the tags, it loads every spec file, most of which
require spec_helper, which loads Rails, and so takes 5-6 seconds.
Thereby totally defeating the original purpose.
One idea I have is to put some if statements into spec_helper to check
the tags that were passed to RSpec and only load the rails env if
necessary. Is that possible?
I’ve been trying to separate out some fast specs in a Rails app in a Gary
Bernhardt style[1], and I experimented with using tags.
The problem with using tags is that in order to scan the specs for examples that
match the tags, it loads every spec file, most of which require spec_helper, which
loads Rails, and so takes 5-6 seconds. Thereby totally defeating the original
purpose.
One idea I have is to put some if statements into spec_helper to check the tags
that were passed to RSpec and only load the rails env if necessary. Is that
possible?
What I’m about to tell you is used internally, is not a formal API, and
is subject to change without notice. That said, for the moment, you can
do this:
if !RSpec.configuration.inclusion_filter[:no_rails]