Undefined method `use_transactional_fixtures

Question

I followed a long with this guide on testing applications for rails and I came across this error:

/home/***/***/***/spec/spec_helper.rb:27:in `block in <top (required)>': undefined method `use_transactional_fixtures=' for #<RSpec::Core::Configuration:0x9fe8824> (NoMethodError) 

My gems look like this:

 gem "rspec-rails", :group => [:test, :development] group :test do gem "factory_girl_rails" gem "capybara" gem "guard-rspec" end 

and my configuration file is as follows:

 # This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate rspec:install' ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test' require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__) require 'rspec/rails' require 'rspec/autorun' require 'capybara/rspec' # Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc, # in spec/support/ and its subdirectories. Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f} RSpec.configure do |config| # ## Mock Framework # # If you prefer to use mocha, flexmock or RR, uncomment the appropriate line: # # config.mock_with :mocha # config.mock_with :flexmock # config.mock_with :rr # Remove this line if you're not using ActiveRecord or ActiveRecord fixtures # config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures" # If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your # examples within a transaction, remove the following line or assign false # instead of true. config.use_transactional_fixtures = true # If true, the base class of anonymous controllers will be inferred # automatically. This will be the default behavior in future versions of # rspec-rails. config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false # Run specs in random order to surface order dependencies. If you find an # order dependency and want to debug it, you can fix the order by providing # the seed, which is printed after each run. # --seed 1234 config.order = "random" end 

so why do I get this error when protection starts?

Answer 1

Perhaps because you are not using ActiveRecord (for example, you are using MongoId), and if you need to comment out * config.use_transactional_fixtures * in spec_helper

spec_helper.rb

  # Remove this line if you're not using ActiveRecord or ActiveRecord fixtures # config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures" # If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your # examples within a transaction, remove the following line or assign false # instead of true. # config.use_transactional_fixtures = true