--- title: "tenderlove's pure Ruby x86 assembler" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 560 published_at: "2021-07-08" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/560" --- Plus a new Faraday release, new Ruby security releases, and it's time to get your RubyConf 2021 talks submitted. | #​560 — July 8, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/560) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/y4y4jwwctuwm3vuob07q.jpg)](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/07/07/ruby-3-0-2-released/) [Ruby 3.0.2 Released (plus 2.7.4 and 2.6.8)](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/07/07/ruby-3-0-2-released/) — It’s security release time. `Net::FTP` and `Net::IMAP` have some vulnerabilities that have been fixed. The [2.6.8 release](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/07/07/ruby-2-6-8-released/) also includes some other bug fixes and [2.7.4 is here](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/07/07/ruby-2-7-4-released/). 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This can be helpful for large suites. ### `--example` (`-e`) flag The `--example` (or `-e`) flag takes a string argument and runs only examples whose names include the argument. For example, if we had this spec file `spec/example_spec.rb`: ``` RSpec.describe Example do it "runs this specific test" do ... end it "does not run this" do ... end end ``` We can run `rspec spec/example_spec.rb -e "specific test"` and only the first test will run. This is an additional reason it can be helpful to have well described tests. ### `:` flag We can run an example on a specific line by including that line number right after the specific file when running the test. We can add line numbers to our previous example to clarify: ``` 1 RSpec.describe Example do 2 it "runs this specific test" do 3 ... 4 end 5 6 it "does not run this" do 7 ... 8 end 9 end ``` We can run `rspec spec/example_spec.rb:2` to only run the first spec. ### `:focus` If we only want to run a specific context or example, we can add the following to our `spec/spec_helper.rb` to configure the ability to focus on a specific set of tests: ``` RSpec.configure do |config| config.filter_run focus: true end ``` and then pass the symbol `:focus` as an optional argument to our example or group before running our tests: ``` describe "only testing this", :focus do ... end ``` Hopefully some of these methods of running specific tests are useful in avoiding running the full suite unnecessarily! This week’s tip was written by [Jemma Issroff](https://twitter.com/jemmaissroff). 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