From e26f94891b9f12827df7fa32e8f829ff29d95c70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Conway <matt@conwaysplace.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:10:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] allow running individual test files, or single test cases in
 a file

---
 Makefile  |  2 +-
 README.md | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 748c504..56b7bee 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ clean:
 
 .PHONY: test
 test: qless.lua *.lua
-	nosetests --exe -v
+	nosetests --exe -v $(TEST)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e836f6b..817df84 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -54,12 +54,25 @@ installed:
 pip install redis nose
 ```
 
-To run the tests, there is a directive included in the makefile:
+To run all the tests, there is a directive included in the makefile:
 
 ```bash
 make test
 ```
 
+You can run specific test files by passing the TEST environment variable to make:
+
+```bash
+make test TEST=test/test_worker.py
+```
+
+or for a single test case in that file:
+
+```bash
+make test TEST=test/test_worker.py:TestWorker.test_basic
+```
+
+
 If you have Redis running somewhere other than `localhost:6379`, you can supply
 the `REDIS_URL` environment variable: