Time out long running tests using Rspec 2

Testing RSpec
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I’m cross posting a query on timing out tests that came up on our local
ruby
list:

In RSpec1, there was an option “timeout” using which we can fail all

the long running tests i.e. “spec --timeout 2 spec/” will fail those
tests which takes more than 2 seconds to run. It does not seem to be
existing in RSpec2. I saw the “filter_run” option as mentioned here:
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/06/14/filtering-examples-in-rspec-2/.
Using this I can add “slow” tags to tests. But it is not same as the
“timeout” option. Can someone let me know whats the better approach to
time out slow running tests?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sidu.
http://c42.in

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Sidu P. [email protected]
wrote:

time out slow running tests?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

What about an around_filter?

require ‘timeout’

RSpec.configure do |c|
c.around(:each) do |example|
Timeout::timeout(2) {
example.run
}
end
end

http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/2-0/dir/hooks/around-hooks