Pretty Fail Formatter

An rspec formatter which is concise on success and pretty on failures. It behaves like the standard formatter, printing only nice green dots. Except when a spec failes, then it prints the failing spec verbosely, so that you instantly see what's wrong.

$ bundle exec rspec spec/models/admin_spec.rb -f PrettyFailFormatter
....F

  1) Admin#does something stupid
     Failure/Error: expect(subject.stupid).to be true

       expected: true
            got: false

       (compared using ==)

       Diff:
       @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
       -true
       +false

     # ./spec/models/admin_spec.rb:44:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
...........

Finished in 1.24 seconds (files took 3.64 seconds to load)
16 examples, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/models/admin_spec.rb:37 # Admin#does something stupid

Installation

Put it in your Gemfile

gem 'rspec-pretty_fail_formatter'

Run bundle install

If you don't user Bundler you can install it using the gem command:

$ gem install rspec-pretty_fail_formatter

Usage

Add the following to your spec/spec_helper.rb file:

require 'rspec-pretty_fail_formatter'

Add (or change) the following in your .rspec file:

--format PrettyFailFormatter

Alternatively, you can add the following to the spec/spec_helper.rb file:

RSpec.configure {|c| c.add_formatter PrettyFailFormatter }

or run rspec with the propper command line argument:

$ rspec --f PrettyFailFormatter

Contributing

Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
Check out the github issues to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
Fork the project
Start a feature/bugfix branch
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution

Pretty Fail Formatter

Installation

Usage

Contributing

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