Rspec hangs after it finishes running through my tests

Question

Has anyone seen this problem before? Sometimes when running specs for my Rails 3.2.14 project rspec seems to finish as usual:

Finished in 1.27 seconds
6 examples, 2 failures

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/models/my_spec.rb:123 # Hello world 1
rspec ./spec/models/my_spec.rb:234 # Hello world 2

but then it just hangs there and won't let me continue working in that shell. I can kill -9 the process from another terminal tab, or just start a new shell and run the tests again there, but it makes test driven development a huge pain.

When I restart my computer, the problem goes away for a while, but it always happens again eventually. After it hangs once, it keeps hanging every time I run rspec, even if I run different tests in a different project. The same tests in the same projects pass just fine on my coworkers' computers every time.

I'm not sure what information would help to answer this question so let me know if there is something I should add to this post. I'm running ruby 2.0.0p195 and rails 3.2.14. I've got Mac OS 10.7.5. I use zsh and rbenv.

Thanks for reading!

Answer 1

Ok, figured it out with a friend's help. All it took was removing SimpleCov from my spec_helper. Not sure why SimpleCov was causing the issue, but I'll post an update here if I find out.