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Ruby User Authentication with Rails Password Hashing and Sign In Integration testing authentication

Posted by Wesley Wright
Wesley Wright
26,793 Points

Terribly confused by the tests toward the end of the Integration testing authentication video

There is probably something stupid that I'm not noticing going on here, but here goes...

Even though there are two examples being run in the second part of the video, only one shows up when it is run in the video. What is going on here? Am I seeing things?

1 Answer

David Moore
David Moore
13,916 Points
David Moore
David Moore
13,916 Points

I cannot know for sure which time you are referring to but many times around the end of the video Jason is running the specific test, not the whole file. To do this, you would issue the following command in your terminal:

rspec spec/features/users/authentication_spec.rb:4

This runs the test specifically on line 4 of the file. You can use the :line notation to gain access to the most granular level of testing. You would usually do this for speed over running the entire file or if you have other tests you know are failing and want to avoid a wall of red spam while you work on one specific issue.

Hope this helps!