Feature: custom formatters RSpec ships with general purpose output formatters. You can tell RSpec which one to use using the [`--format` command line option]('../command_line/format_option'). When RSpec's built-in output formatters don't, however, give you everything you need, you can write your own custom formatter and tell RSpec to use that one instead. The simplest way is to subclass RSpec's `BaseTextFormatter`, and then override just the methods that you want to modify. Scenario: custom formatter Given a file named "custom_formatter.rb" with: """ require "rspec/core/formatters/base_text_formatter" class CustomFormatter < RSpec::Core::Formatters::BaseTextFormatter def initialize(output) super(output) end def example_started(proxy) output << "example: " << proxy.description end end """ And a file named "example_spec.rb" with: """ describe "my group" do specify "my example" do end end """ When I run `rspec example_spec.rb --require ./custom_formatter.rb --format CustomFormatter` Then the output should contain "example: my example" And the exit status should be 0