Rails 3 + Rspec 2 + Autotest: Autotest does not load

Question

I have installed autotest and Rspec2 but Autotest does not want to run. The folder autotest has not been created (I have created it by hand and added discover.rb) and when I run autotest this is what I get over and oveR:

$ autotest
loading autotest/rails_rspec2
style: RailsRspec2


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$

I've been using autotest for a long time and now it's dead. Any reason why?

Thanks

Timo Timo · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-14T11:33:42

What needs to be done depends on the rspec version, but for 2.3 above the instructions from the above mentioned rspec wiki https://github.com/rspec/rspec/wiki/autotest tell you this: "Make sure you have a .rspec file in the project root. That tells RSpec to tell Autotest to load RSpec’s autotest extension."

You may just create the file like touch .rspec The file need not to have any content, but it must exists. In case you have rspec-rails installed you can also run rails g rspec:install and it will create this file for you. The default content being simply one option --colour

Rails 3 + Rspec 2 + Autotest: Autotest does not load

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