The rspec
command comes with several options you can use to customize RSpec's
behavior, including output formats, filtering examples, etc.
For a full list of options, run the rspec
command with the --help
flag:
$ rspec --help
Generally, life is simpler if you just use the rspec
command. If you must use the ruby
command, however, you'll need to require "rspec/autorun"
. You can
either pass a -rrspec/autorun
CLI option when invoking ruby
, or add
a require 'rspec/autorun'
to one or more of your spec files.
It is conventional to put configuration in and require assorted support files
from spec/spec_helper.rb
. It is also conventional to require that file from
the spec files using require 'spec_helper'
. This works because RSpec
implicitly adds the spec
directory to the LOAD_PATH
. It also adds lib
, so
your implementation files will be on the LOAD_PATH
as well.
If you're using the ruby
command, you'll need to do this yourself
(with the -I
option). Putting these together, your command might be
something like this:
$ ruby -Ilib -Ispec -rrspec/autorun path/to/spec.rb