[rspec-users] rake spec order of running tests

[Ben Mabey]

Mark Wilden wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:18 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com
> <mailto:dchelimsky at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Any chance the different machines are windows and otherwise? By
>     default the files are loaded alphabetically, but that means different
>     things on windows machines (which treat alpha without regard to case)
>     and pretty much anything else.
>
>
> The specs ran fine a Free-BSD machine, but failed on Windows and OS X
> machines. The guy who "initiated" the failures was on Windows but
> doesn't tend to run rake spec locally (this was Bruce, Pat).
>
> Maybe I'll have a look at the random order thing...
>

I think autotest does this already... It will at least mess with the
order of your specs/tests so that brittle ones are exposed.

-Ben
> ///ark
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