Recursively glob for RSpec test files at runtime

Question

I have a suite of RSpec tests I want to group under the following hierarchy:

tests/
  featA/
     t1.rb
     t2.rb
  featB/
     t3.rb

but when I run

$ rspec tests

I get the following:

rspec tests
No examples were matched. Perhaps {:unless=>#<Proc:0x00007f318919cc08@/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:51>, :if=>#<Proc:0x00007f318919cdc0@/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:50>} is excluding everything?

Finished in 0.00003 seconds
0 examples, 0 failures

I feel like I'm going mad, but there doesn't seem to be a way to get RSpec to recursively glob for test files? Does this functionality exist?

EDIT:

I have a workaround by doing this:

$ rspec `find tests -name "*.rb"`

but I suspect I shouldn't have to. Am I right?

Answer 1

You've exposed an oversight on my part! In rspec-1, you could say this:

spec test --pattern "**/*.rb"

But the --pattern option is missing in rspec-2. I've just added it (in development) and it will be included in the rspec-2.6.0 release.

Answer 2

I usually manage running RSpec on my specs via rake. The relevant portion of my Rakefile looks something like this:

require 'rspec/core/rake_task'

RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec) do |t|
  t.rspec_opts = ['--color', '-f progress', '-r ./spec/spec_helper.rb']
  t.pattern = 'spec/**/*_spec.rb'
  t.fail_on_error = false
end

Now rake spec runs RSpec with the appropriate options; you'll need to change t.pattern to match the specs you want to run.

Be sure to check out the RSpec2 site for more information.