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Rspec Essentials
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Rspec Essentials

by Mani Tadayon
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
222 pages
4h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running our first spec

Let's get started writing our first RSpec spec file before we delve deeper into the concepts of the unit and the assertion. First, let's try an empty file. What will happen if we create an empty file called empty.rb and try to run it as an RSpec spec file? On a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) based operating system, such as Linux or OS X, we could do the following:

Running our first spec

We can see that RSpec correctly reports that there are no examples in the file. However, we also notice that RSpec reports that there are zero failures, which is, strictly speaking, correct. Finally, the last line shows the exit status of the rspec empty.rb ...

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