diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 952e999999..db818fad23 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ addons:
 
 # Set the timezone for phantomjs with TZ
 # Set the timezone for karma with TIMEZONE
-#
-# The test cases are roughly split according to their test times.
-# It would be better to use https://github.com/ArturT/knapsack.
 env:
   global:
     - TZ="Australia/Melbourne"
@@ -21,7 +18,7 @@ env:
     - CI_NODE_INDEX=0
     - CI_NODE_INDEX=1
     - CI_NODE_INDEX=2
-    - CI_NODE_INDEX=3
+    - CI_NODE_INDEX=3 RSPEC_ENGINES="true"
     - CI_NODE_INDEX=4 KARMA="true" GITHUB_DEPLOY="true"
 
 before_script:
@@ -42,6 +39,7 @@ before_script:
 
 script:
   - 'if [ "$KARMA" = "true" ]; then bundle exec rake karma:run; else echo "Skipping karma run"; fi'
+  - 'if [ "$RSPEC_ENGINES" = "true" ]; then bundle exec rake openfoodnetwork:specs:engines:rspec; else echo "Skipping RSpec run in engines"; fi'
   - "bundle exec rake 'knapsack:rspec[--format progress --tag ~performance]'"
 
 after_success:
diff --git a/GETTING_STARTED.md b/GETTING_STARTED.md
index 93cff8dad0..5a2e7eea54 100644
--- a/GETTING_STARTED.md
+++ b/GETTING_STARTED.md
@@ -69,10 +69,14 @@ Tests, both unit and integration, are based on RSpec. To run the test suite, fir
 
     bundle exec rake db:test:prepare
 
-Then the tests can be run with:
+Then the main application tests can be run with:
 
     bundle exec rspec spec
 
+The tests of all custom engines can be run with:
+
+    bundle exec rake openfoodnetwork:specs:engines:rspec
+
 Note: If your OS is not explicitly supported in the setup guides then not all tests may pass. However, you may still be able to develop. Get in touch with the [#dev][slack-dev] channel on Slack to troubleshoot issues and determine if they will preclude you from contributing to OFN.
 
 Note: The time zone on your machine should match the one defined in `config/application.yml`.
diff --git a/engines/web/spec/spec_helper.rb b/engines/web/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 3306063166..9cfd0bc717 100644
--- a/engines/web/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/engines/web/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
-
-require File.expand_path("dummy/config/environment.rb", __dir__)
-require "rails/test_help"
-
-Rails.backtrace_cleaner.remove_silencers!
+require "../../spec/spec_helper.rb"
 
 Dir["#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/support/**/*.rb"].each { |f| require f }
diff --git a/lib/tasks/specs.rake b/lib/tasks/specs.rake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dddb5ffb54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/tasks/specs.rake
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+namespace :openfoodnetwork do
+  namespace :specs do
+    namespace :engines do
+      def detect_engine_paths
+        Pathname("engines/").children.select(&:directory?)
+      end
+
+      def engine_name_for_engine(engine_path)
+        engine_path.basename.to_path
+      end
+
+      def execute_rspec_for_engine(engine_path)
+        system "cd #{engine_path.expand_path} && DISABLE_KNAPSACK=true bundle exec rspec"
+      end
+
+      engine_paths = detect_engine_paths
+
+      engine_paths.each do |engine_path|
+        engine_name = engine_name_for_engine(engine_path)
+
+        namespace engine_name do
+          desc "Run RSpec tests for engine \"#{engine_name}\""
+          task :rspec do
+            success = execute_rspec_for_engine(engine_path)
+            abort "Failure when running tests for engine \"#{engine_name}\"" unless success
+          end
+        end
+      end
+
+      namespace :all do
+        desc "Run RSpec tests for all engines"
+        task :rspec do
+          success = true
+
+          engine_paths.each do |engine_path|
+            success = !!execute_rspec_for_engine(engine_path) && success
+          end
+
+          abort "Failure encountered when running tests for engines" unless success
+        end
+      end
+
+      desc "Alias for openfoodnetwork:specs:engines:all:rspec"
+      task rspec: "all:rspec"
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index c198a68fbb..66924edea8 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -6,9 +6,13 @@ require 'rubygems'
 # Require pry when we're not inside Travis-CI
 require 'pry' unless ENV['CI']
 
-require 'knapsack'
-Knapsack.tracker.config({enable_time_offset_warning: false}) unless ENV['CI']
-Knapsack::Adapters::RSpecAdapter.bind
+# This spec_helper.rb is being used by the custom engines in engines/. The engines are not set up to
+# use Knapsack, and this provides the option to disable it when running the tests in CI services.
+unless ENV['DISABLE_KNAPSACK']
+  require 'knapsack'
+  Knapsack.tracker.config({enable_time_offset_warning: false}) unless ENV['CI']
+  Knapsack::Adapters::RSpecAdapter.bind
+end
 
 ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
 require_relative "../config/environment"