Effective Testing with RSpec 3

Saving Your Progress: Pending Specs

Before veering off into low-level implementation, it’s a good idea to save your work so far. We don’t recommend leaving specs in a failing state, though. So let’s mark this one as in progress. Add the following highlighted line at the top of your spec:

04-acceptance-specs/06/expense_tracker/spec/acceptance/expense_tracker_api_spec.rb

it 'records submitted expenses' do
  pending 'Need to persist expenses'

Now, when you run your specs, you will get a reminder of what you were working on:

$ bundle exec rspec
*

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

  1) Expense Tracker API records submitted expenses
     # Need to persist expenses
     Failure/Error: ...