NAME¶

specrb - standalone test runner for test/spec and Test::Unit test suites

SYNOPSIS¶

specrb [OPTIONS] [FILES | -a ] [-- untouched arguments]

DESCRIPTION¶

The Ruby script specrb allows you to run tests written with test/spec from the command line. It can also be used for plain Test::Unit test suites. You can either specify the names of the test files you want to run, or let specrb find automatically all the tests in your project, by using the -a switch (see TEST/SPEC OPTIONS below).

You can also use various options on the command line to pass parameters to the Ruby interpreterm or to modify the behavior of test/spec and/or test/unit.

RUBY OPTIONS¶

-e, --eval LINE

evaluate a LINE of code

-d, --debug

set debugging flags (set $DEBUG to true)

-w, --warn

turn warnings on for your script

-I, --include PATH

specify $LOAD_PATH (may be used more than once)

-r, --require LIBRARY

require the LIBRARY, before executing your script

TEST/SPEC OPTIONS:¶

-s, --specdox

do AgileDox-like output

--rdox

do AgileDox-like output with RDoc formatting

-a, --automatic

gather tests from ./test/, include ./lib/

TEST::UNIT OPTIONS:¶

-n, --name NAME

runs tests matching regexp NAME

-t, --testcase TESTCASE

runs tests in TestCases matching regexp TESTCASE

COMMON OPTIONS:¶

-h, --help

show a message similar to this manpage

--version

show version

AUTHORS¶

The test/spec library has been written by Christian Neukirchen <http://purl.org/net/chneukirchen>.

This manual page, inspired by the help message of specrb, has been written for the Debian Project by Cédric Boutillier (but may used by others).