How run the ``rspec --init` for a sub-directory ?`

Question

I'am trying to write a simple ruby code supposed to automate tasks. One of the task is initializing the rspec gem for a directory which is not the current directory.

I made first tries directly in the terminal before writing my code in he ruby file. Here is what I have tried (in a terminal window) :

$rspec --init a_sub_directory
OR
$rspec a_sub_directory --init

The result in both cases : all the rspec elements ( .rspec + spec/spec_helper.rb) are created in the current directory and the sub directory did not change its content.

Is there anything possible to get the rspec elements created in a sub directory of the current directory ?

Regards and thanks :)

Julien

Answer 1

Use the Dir.chdir method to change the current directory and then execute rspec --init. It could be :

Dir.mkdir("a_sub_directory")
Dir.chdir("a_sub_directory")
system("rspec --init)

And that's it; I've tried this, it works.