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I added some long-running integration tests to a Rails application today and quickly began getting irritated that issuing the rake command runs all tests… units, functionals, AND integrations. Since I run rake quite frequently, any sizable delay can quickly get annoying.
The task that gets executed by rake is the :test task. After spending a few [...]