rspec shows negative time

Question

I'm running rails 3.2.1 with rspec 2.8.1 on ruby 1.9.3p0 and when running my tests it shows a negative time value. This is annoying as I'm trying optimise my tests.

Running: spec/models/transaction_spec.rb
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Finished in -7603162.49414 seconds

I've tried updating rspec to 2.9.0 but this didn't help.

Answer 1

Are you using the timecop gem? Make sure you Timecop.return after freezing. Either that or you're stubbing a date/time method somewhere.