RSpec

IntelliJ IDEA supports RSpec up to version 3.0.x. This section describes how to use RSpec in plain Ruby projects, and in Rails applications:

Prerequisites

Before you start working with Ruby, make sure that Ruby plugin is installed and enabled.

Also make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

Ruby SDK is downloaded and installed on your machine.
The required framework SDKs are downloaded and installed on your machine.

Refer to their respective download and installation pages for details:

RSpec 2.x Note

For RSpec 2.x, special configuration is required for the coverage options. The Rake task that launches RSpec 2.x tests with the code coverage enabled, need RCOV_OPTS environment variable, and should be modified as shown below:

# rspec 2.x
require "rake"
require "rspec/core/rake_task"

desc "Run all specs with rcov"
RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new("test_cov") do |t|
  t.rcov      = true
  t.rcov_opts = ENV["RCOV_OPTS"]
end

Zeus Note

If you are going to run RSpec tests under Zeus server, make sure to use Zeus version 0.13.4.pre2, or higher.

Last modified: 20 November 2018