Nicely handle errors encountered from processing --require.

Changelog.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Enhancements:
 
 * Improve shell escaping used by `RSpec::Core::RakeTask` and `--bisect` so
   that it works on `Pathname` objects. (Andrew Vit, #2479)
+* Nicely format errors encountered while loading files specified
+  by `--require` option.  (Myron Marston, #2504)
 
 ### 3.7.1 / 2018-01-02
 [Full Changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v3.7.0...v3.7.1)

lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb

@@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ def configure_example(example, example_hooks)
       def requires=(paths)
         directories = ['lib', default_path].select { |p| File.directory? p }
         RSpec::Core::RubyProject.add_to_load_path(*directories)
-        paths.each { |path| require path }
+        paths.each { |path| load_file_handling_errors(:require, path) }
         @requires += paths
       end
 
@@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ def load_spec_files
 
         files_to_run.uniq.each do |f|
           file = File.expand_path(f)
-          load_spec_file_handling_errors(file)
+          load_file_handling_errors(:load, file)
           loaded_spec_files << file
         end
 
@@ -1948,8 +1948,8 @@ def on_example_group_definition_callbacks
 
     private
 
-      def load_spec_file_handling_errors(file)
-        load file
+      def load_file_handling_errors(method, file)
+        __send__(method, file)
       rescue Support::AllExceptionsExceptOnesWeMustNotRescue => ex
         relative_file = Metadata.relative_path(file)
         reporter.notify_non_example_exception(ex, "An error occurred while loading #{relative_file}.")

spec/integration/spec_file_load_errors_spec.rb

@@ -31,6 +31,29 @@
     end
   end
 
+  it 'nicely handles load-time errors from --require files' do
+    write_file_formatted "helper_with_error.rb", "raise 'boom'"
+
+    run_command "--require ./helper_with_error"
+    expect(last_cmd_exit_status).to eq(failure_exit_code)
+    output = normalize_durations(last_cmd_stdout)
+    expect(output).to eq unindent(<<-EOS)
+
+      An error occurred while loading ./helper_with_error.
+      Failure/Error: raise 'boom'
+
+      RuntimeError:
+        boom
+      # ./helper_with_error.rb:1#{spec_line_suffix}
+      No examples found.
+
+
+      Finished in n.nnnn seconds (files took n.nnnn seconds to load)
+      0 examples, 0 failures, 1 error occurred outside of examples
+
+    EOS
+  end
+
   it 'nicely handles load-time errors in user spec files' do
     write_file_formatted "1_spec.rb", "
       boom