Because your examples should not change global state, you should not need to care about the order in which RSpec processes your .rb
files. However, in some cases you might want to know.
.rb
files
in alphabetical order
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of their file paths by default (or when you specify --order defined
).--order random
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on the command line, or by putting it into your project's .rspec
file.defined
runs tests in the order they are defined inside the file, random
shuffles tests inside each file randomly..rb
files in the order the files are stored on the hard drive. This is random for all intents and purposes..rb
files in alphabetical order by default. This is a good default because it never differs for two clones of the same repository.spec --loadby mtime --reverse spec
. This means that the order changes as you edit and save your files.rake spec
(don't do that), it will look for default options in a file spec/support/spec.opts
. If you ever see that file, make sure you remove any loadby
and reverse
options from it, or someone calling spec
gets a different processing order than someone calling rake spec
. Also, don't use rake spec
. It's slow and does too many magic things.