From: David Chelimsky <dchelimsky@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T21:36:06+09:00
Subject: Re: How to control order of spec execution in "spec specs/* " ?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Andrew Chen <hangfei@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a rspec question.
>
>  I have many rspecs in a spec directory.
>
>  In the execution, I need some tests run before others.  So I name the
>  files as: 01_deploy_spec.rb, 02_post_process_spec.rb
>
>  I want 01* to be run before 02*
>
>  I found that the default order in rspec is in the order of last file
>  modification.

The default is actually alpha. mtime must be invoked explicitly. Do
you have mtime listed in spec/spec.opts? If so, get rid of it and you
should be OK.

Cheers,
David

>
>  What are the ways to do it?
>
>  Thanks
>  ~Andrew Chen
>
>