The rspec-rerun gem is a drop-in solution to retry (rerun) failed RSpec examples. It may be useful, for example, with finicky Capybara tests. The strategy to rerun failed specs is to output a file called rspec.failures that contains a list of failed examples and to feed that file back to RSpec via -e.

Usage

Add rspec-rerun to Gemfile in the :development and :test groups.

group :development, :test do
  gem "rspec-rerun"
end

Require rspec-rerun and change the default task in Rakefile.

require 'rspec-rerun'
task :default => "rspec-rerun:spec"

Run rake or rake rspec-rerun:spec. Failed examples will be rerun automatically.

It might also be a good idea to add rspec.failures to .gitignore.

History

Rerunning failed specs has been a long requested feature #456 in RSpec. A viable approach was suggested in #596. The infrastructure from that pull request was merged and released with rspec-core 2.11, which enabled re-running specs outside of RSpec, as described in our blog post. This gem has evolved from it.

Contributing

Fork the project. Make your feature addition or bug fix with tests. Send a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright and License

MIT License, see LICENSE for details.

(c) 2012 Art.sy Inc., Daniel Doubrovkine and Contributors