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authorIlya Zayats <somebody32@gmail.com>2011-02-26 07:49:50 +0300
committerXavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>2011-03-05 11:56:30 +0100
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@@ -101,6 +101,14 @@ $ cd actionpack
$ rake test
</shell>
+If you want to run tests from the specific directory use the +TEST_DIR+ environment variable. For example, this will run tests inside +railties/test/generators+ directory only:
+
+<shell>
+$ cd railties
+$ TEST_DIR=generators rake test
+</shell>
+
+
h4. Warnings
The test suite runs with warnings enabled. Ideally Ruby on Rails should issue no warning, but there may be a few, and also some from third-party libraries. Please ignore (or fix!) them if any, and submit patches that do not issue new warnings.