Run skipped rspec tests and fail if they pass

Question

Let's say I have a bunch of tests:

spec/code_spec.rb:

require "rails_helper"

RSpec.describe Code do
  xit { Code.evaluate("Twitter.search") }
  xit { Code.evaluate("Slack.send") }
  xit { Code.evaluate("Twitter.send") }
end

I get:

~/s/d/code> rspec spec/code_spec.rb

Randomized with seed 54828

Code
  example at ./spec/code_spec.rb:5 (PENDING: Temporarily skipped with xit)
  example at ./spec/code_spec.rb:6 (PENDING: Temporarily skipped with xit)
  example at ./spec/code_spec.rb:4 (PENDING: Temporarily skipped with xit)

Pending: (Failures listed here are expected and do not affect your suite's status)

  1) Code 
     # Temporarily skipped with xit
     # ./spec/code_spec.rb:5

  2) Code 
     # Temporarily skipped with xit
     # ./spec/code_spec.rb:6

  3) Code 
     # Temporarily skipped with xit
     # ./spec/code_spec.rb:4


Finished in 0.00251 seconds (files took 3.32 seconds to load)
3 examples, 0 failures, 3 pending

Randomized with seed 54828

What I would like is rspec to execute the tests and fail if they pass, ideally telling me I need to unskip them.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

You can add pending: 'pending reason' to test description

everything is described here https://www.joshmcarthur.com/til/2019/05/27/pending-block-examples-with-rspec.html

this test will be run by rspec, but will not fail whole test suite

it 'adds 1 + 1 and equals 3', pending: true do
  expect(1 + 1).to eq 3
end

but this test will fail, because no error was raised

it 'adds 1 + 1 and equals 2', pending: true do
  expect(1 + 1).to eq 2
end