Why am I getting "including Capybara :: DSL in the global area is not recommended!"

Question

Every time I run a specification, even if the specification passes, for example.

$ rspec spec/integration/view_homepage_spec.rb including Capybara::DSL in the global scope is not recommended! . Finished in 0.6174 seconds 1 example, 0 failures Randomized with seed 14130 $ 

In my gemfile there is:

 group :test, :development do gem 'rspec-rails' gem 'capybara' end 

My spec_helper has:

 ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test' require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__) require 'rspec/rails' require 'rspec/autorun' require 'capybara' include Capybara::DSL Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each { |f| require f } ActiveRecord::Migration.check_pending! if defined?(ActiveRecord::Migration) RSpec.configure do |config| config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures" config.use_transactional_fixtures = true config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false config.order = "random" end 

If I comment on include Capybara::DSL , then my capybara methods, such as visit , do not work.

Answer 1

Because including Capybara::DSL in the global scope is not recommended.

This includes many global methods in the system that can interfere with your own code.

Here is the correct way:

 RSpec.configure do |config| config.include Capybara::DSL, :type => :feature end