Running parallel tests using RSpec ignores additional spec paths in config

[kiddrew]

I'm working on an enterprise app where some high value customers have additional specs outside of the standard /spec path. We have RSpec configured to look for them using a config in rails_helper.rb

config.pattern += ',../customers/**/spec/**/*_spec.rb'

Running rspec by itself respects that configuration, but parallel_tests expects all specs to live at /spec as defined in the rspec runner:

        def default_test_folder
          "spec"
        end

The workaround for this is to specify the paths you want through the CLI:

parallel_rspec -- spec customers

You lose wildcard functionality, but it at least makes parallel_tests find all the files. IMO, running in RSpec mode should function exactly as RSpec does, which includes using RSpec's configuration.

[grosser]

don't think that's possible since that would mean "loading rspec and dumping the files" or loading the whole spec_helper as part of parallel_tests, which is what it tries not to do

if you can make the pattern be configured in .rspec or .parallel_rpsec config files we could maybe parse them though

[kiddrew]

Hmm, yeah. I get your point. Adding that config to .parallel_rspec might make sense.