Rspec "cannot load such a file"

Question

Starting rspec for the first time with the Rails manual, page 95. Getting this result:

david@david-desktop :~/rails_projects/sample_app1$ bundle exec rspec /spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb /home/david/.rvm/gems/ ruby-1.9.3-p362@rails3tutorial2nded /gems/rspec-core-2.9.0/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:746:in `load': cannot load such file -- /spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb (LoadError) from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ ruby-1.9.3-p362@rails3tutorial2nded /gems/rspec-core-2.9.0/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:746:in `block in load_spec_files' from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ ruby-1.9.3-p362@rails3tutorial2nded /gems/rspec-core-2.9.0/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:746:in `map' from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ ruby-1.9.3-p362@rails3tutorial2nded /gems/rspec-core-2.9.0/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:746:in `load_spec_files' from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ ruby-1.9.3-p362@rails3tutorial2nded /gems/rspec-core-2.9.0/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in `run' from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ ruby-1.9.3-p362@rails3tutorial2nded /gems/rspec-core-2.9.0/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:69:in `run' from /home/david/.rvm/gems/ ruby-1.9.3-p362@rails3tutorial2nded /gems/rspec-core-2.9.0/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:10:in `block in autorun' 

Here is the gemfile:

  source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'rails', '3.2.3' # Bundle edge Rails instead: # gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git' group :development, :test do gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.5' gem 'rspec-rails', '2.9.0' end # Gems used only for assets and not required # in production environments by default. group :assets do gem 'sass-rails', '3.2.4' gem 'coffee-rails', '3.2.2' gem 'uglifier', '1.2.3' # See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes # gem 'therubyracer', :platform => :ruby end gem 'jquery-rails' group :test do gem 'capybara', '1.1.2' end 

The rails generating rspec are already done: install and rails generates static_test static_pages commands. Ideas?

Answer 1

Drop the main slash in the file name:

 bundle exec rspec spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb 

Answer 2

Just FYI. I also experienced this when the specification file was not formatted correctly. I missed the "DO"

Answer 3

I had the same problem - deleting the leading "/" fixed.