Rerun Only Failures With RSpec

After running a big test suite, I may have a bunch of output on the screen including the results of a couple test failures. I like to bring the context of the test failures front and center and make sure they are consistent test failures (not flickering failures). Instead of copying and pasting each failure, I can rerun rspec in a way that executes only the test cases that failed.

$ rspec --only-failures

This feature requires that you set a file for RSpec to persist some state between runs. Do this in the spec/spec_helper.rb file. For example:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.example_status_persistence_file_path = "spec/examples.txt"
end

See more details here.

h/t Brian Dunn