You can't do anything well without liking to do it. The difference between hackers and salesmen is that hacking is what hackers like most. Salesmen who have sufficient money seem empirically to prefer playing golf, whereas hackers with money tend to keep hacking.

-Paul Graham

i actually wish i could jump ship to python. i’ve tried. but the brain has two halves. and the right side is a legitimate organ, i think.

--_why

Here is a bash function that creates a command (if included in your .bash_profile) that will let you run a single example:

function rs
{
rake spec SPEC=spec/$1 SPEC_OPTS="-e \"$2\""
}

Use it like this:

rs models/submission_spec.rb "should be rejected if research process is set to :not_interested"