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Adding rake task for specs. 
Ugh. This is so stupid. If I name this :spec, it doesn't work. But :spec_lolz does.
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steveklabnik committed Nov 22, 2011
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RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec_lolz) do |spec|
spec.rspec_opts = ["-r./spec/spec_helper.rb"]
end

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:spec is the default argument to RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new

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And by not work, you mean it still uses the default (rspec-rails provided) "spec" rake task?

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Yes. If I make it :spec, and I run rake spec, the argument is not respected. It's very strange.

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You basically have two options:

1.) Keep the "spec_lolz" task. It works because it's not named "spec".
2.) Add Rake.application.instance_variable_get('@tasks').delete('spec') to the top of your rspec.rake file. This will delete the "spec" task that rspec-rails provides via railties.

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Ahhh I didn't know about that! I swear that I used to be able to just override it, did something change?

I don't have time to do that right now, but if you worked up a pull request, I'd totally merge it. :)

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Ahhh I didn't know about that! I swear that I used to be able to just override it, did something change?

RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new just creates new rake tasks using the task DSL. And, Rake doesn't allow you to "override" tasks, it just creates new ones:

task :spec do
  puts 'one'
end

task :spec do
  puts 'two'
end

# running `rake spec` will output "one" & "two"

To overwrite a task, you have get hacky.

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