This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Ruby Buzz by Kurt Schrader. Original Post: Running the Rspec spec task as the default task in Rails Feed Title: Schrade.Blog Feed URL: http://kurt.karmalab.org/atom.xml Feed Description: Tech and Business Ramblings by Kurt Schrader Latest Ruby Buzz Posts Latest Ruby Buzz Posts by Kurt Schrader Latest Posts From Schrade.Blog

Whenever I start a new Rails project, one of the first things I do is install Rspec and delete the Rails default test directory. Even with that directory missing, however, Rails continues to waste my time by trying to run its various testing tasks.

To make it stop, just add the following:

Rake::Task[:default].prerequisites.clear
task :default => :spec

to the bottom of the Rakefile in the root application directory.

Obviously, if you want to have a default task other than spec, just change the right side of the second line to whatever task you want it to run.