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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Write Our First Tests

Nicholas Lee
Nicholas Lee
12,474 Points
Posted by Nicholas Lee
Nicholas Lee
12,474 Points

Why do i have to use bin/spec to run my tests?

When I try to run tests by calling the file name in the terminal without putting bin/spec first I get a permission denied.

Why do i have to have the following code for it to run?

require 'pathname'
ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'] ||= File.expand_path("../../Gemfile",
  Pathname.new(__FILE__).realpath)

require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler/setup'

load Gem.bin_path('rspec-core', 'rspec')

Just curious.

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

So you are calling bin/spec to tell the terminal you want to run rspec tests. Much like when we say:

cd Downloads

to change directories. If I just typed "Downloads" the terminal wouldn't know what I was asking it to do. Basically you need "command" and then "file to apply that command".