I just pushed the following two changes into rspec-core. They should show up in rspec-core 2.0.0.beta.13.
A good use is to set it to bundle exec rcov.
Back in the day (i.e. before June 19th, 2010), when you ran rake spec it loads your project files, and then it calls out ala system ruby ..... This makes everyone sad if your project takes a while to load.
Now, we invoke the RSpec runner via code! So if your project environment takes a while to load, look forward to this in the next release!
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