Running Rspec from Vim

When working on Rspec tests for Ruby code it is often useful to run the tests many times.

Basic Commands

Run all spec tests with :!rspec. That is helpful but sometimes you want to be a little more finite.

Run rspec on current file

:!rspec %

Run rspec on current line

:exe "!rspec % -l " . line('.')

Run rspec tests that match current word

:exe "!rspec %  -e " . expand("<cword>")

Binding with leader

These commands are pretty useful but typing them into the command line can be laborious. For maximum efficiency add them to your .vimrc or .vim.custom files.

This binds the following:

• \f: save and run the current spec file.
• \l: save and run the current line.
• \w: save and run all tests which contain the word under the currsor

map \f :w\|!rspec %<cr>
map \l :w\|:exe "!rspec % -l " . line('.')<cr>
map \w :w\|:exe "!rspec %  -e " . expand("<cword>")<cr>

This was originally a github gist