rspec users - Jun 2011 - Time out long running tests using Rspec 2

I''m cross posting a query on timing out tests that came up on our local
ruby
list:

In RSpec1, there was an option "timeout" using which we can fail
all
> the long running tests i.e. "spec --timeout 2 spec/" will fail
those
> tests which takes more than 2 seconds to run. It does not seem to be
> existing in RSpec2. I saw the "filter_run" option as mentioned
here:
> http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/06/14/filtering-examples-in-rspec-2/.
> Using this I can add "slow" tags to tests. But it is not same as
the
> "timeout" option. Can someone let me know whats the better
approach to
> time out slow running tests?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Sidu Ponnappa <ckponnappa at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I''m cross posting a query on timing out tests that came up on our
local ruby
> list:
>
>> In RSpec1, there was an option "timeout" using which we can
fail all
>> the long running tests i.e. "spec --timeout 2 spec/" will
fail those
>> tests which takes more than 2 seconds to run. It does not seem to be
>> existing in RSpec2. I saw the "filter_run" option as
mentioned here:
>>
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/06/14/filtering-examples-in-rspec-2/.
>> Using this I can add "slow" tags to tests. But it is not same
as the
>> "timeout" option. Can someone let me know whats the better
approach to
>> time out slow running tests?
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
What about an around_filter?

require ''timeout''

RSpec.configure do |c|
  c.around(:each) do |example|
    Timeout::timeout(2) {
      example.run
    }
  end
end

http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/2-0/dir/hooks/around-hooks