is it possible to pass something like --exclude-pattern "**/models/*_spec.rb"?

[noralin]

Is it possible to run bundle exec crystalball --exclude-pattern "**/models/*_spec.rb" and exclude running of specified specs? If not, can you advise how to exclude running of certain specs?

Thanks!

[pluff]

TL:DR no it's not possible to exclude some specific specs via --exclude-pattern option

You can actually pass any options RSpec accepts to Crystalball and it'll work the same as in RSpec. However due to nature how RSpec filtering works it will not exclude specs from a run. E.g.

rspec --exclude-pattern "spec/my_spec.rb" spec/my_spec.rb # Pattern is ignored
rspec --exclude-pattern "spec/my_spec.rb" spec/my_spec.rb[1:1] # Pattern is ignored
rspec --exclude-pattern "spec/my_spec.rb" spec # Pattern is applied

Crystalball runs specific examples so --exclude-pattern option is ignored by RSpec.

However you can extend Crystalball runner and add your custom logic here: https://github.com/toptal/crystalball/blob/master/lib/crystalball/rspec/runner.rb#L70-L73

You'll have to specify your custom runner in crystalball.yml config file like this:

runner_class_name: 'MyCrystalballRunner'
requires:
  - "path/to/my_crystalball_runner"

[noralin]

Ohh that makes sense and is consistent with what I'm observing, will add a custom runner as suggested, thanks!