Why aren't my specs / support files loaded with rspec?

Question

I have a strange error, I have a utilities.rb file in my spec / support folder to store some helper functions, such as the login method.

Specification / Support / utilities.rb

include ApplicationHelper def sign_in(user) visit new_user_session_path fill_in "Email", with: user.email fill_in "Password", with: user.password click_button "Sign in" end 

My protection file:

 require 'active_support/core_ext' guard 'spork', :cucumber_env => { 'RAILS_ENV' => 'test' }, :rspec_env => { 'RAILS_ENV' => 'test' } do watch('config/application.rb') watch('config/environment.rb') watch('config/environments/test.rb') watch(%r{^config/initializers/.+\.rb$}) watch('Gemfile') watch('Gemfile.lock') watch('spec/spec_helper.rb') { :rspec } watch('test/test_helper.rb') { :test_unit } watch('spec/support/') watch(%r{^spec/support/.+\.rb$}) watch(%r{features/support/}) { :cucumber } end guard 'rspec', :version => 2, :all_after_pass => false, :cli => '--drb' do watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$}) watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$}) { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" } watch('spec/spec_helper.rb') { "spec" } # Rails example watch(%r{^app/(.+)\.rb$}) { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" } watch(%r{^app/(.*)(\.erb|\.haml)$}) { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}#{m[2]}_spec.rb" } watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb$}) { |m| ["spec/routing/#{m[1]}_routing_spec.rb", "spec/#{m[2]}s/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb", "spec/acceptance/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"] } watch(%r{^spec/support/(.+)\.rb$}) { "spec" } watch('config/routes.rb') { "spec/routing" } watch('app/controllers/application_controller.rb') { "spec/controllers" } # Capybara request specs watch(%r{^app/views/(.+)/.*\.(erb|haml)$}) { |m| "spec/requests/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" } # Turnip features and steps watch(%r{^spec/acceptance/(.+)\.feature$}) watch(%r{^spec/acceptance/steps/(.+)_steps\.rb$}) { |m| Dir[File.join("**/#{m[1]}.feature")][0] || 'spec/acceptance' } watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb$}) do |m| ["spec/routing/#{m[1]}_routing_spec.rb", "spec/#{m[2]}s/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb", "spec/acceptance/#{m[1]}_spec.rb", (m[1][/_pages/] ? "spec/requests/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" : "spec/requests/#{m[1].singularize}_pages_spec.rb")] end watch(%r{^app/views/(.+)/}) do |m| (m[1][/_pages/] ? "spec/requests/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" : "spec/requests/#{m[1].singularize}_pages_spec.rb") end end 

And in my integration requests test / link_pages_spec.rb I am trying to do something like this, but it gives me an error

 require 'spec_helper' describe "Link pages" do subject { page } describe 'creating a link' do before do sign_in FactoryGirl.create(:user) visit new_link_path end describe "with invalid information" do it "should not create a link" do expect { click_button 'Create Link' }.not_to change(Link, :count) end end end end 

Mistake:

 Failure/Error: sign_in FactoryGirl.create(:user) NoMethodError: undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1:0x007f8ebb563e10> # ./spec/support/utilities.rb:5:in `sign_in' # ./spec/requests/link_pages_spec.rb:10:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>' 

It’s strange if I delete the description block in the link specification of the link, there will be no error.

Answer 1

Developed a solution, the error is caused by the last stone of Capybara. Capybara 2+ requires that you have integration tests in the specifications. I just simply returned to the old version.

See http://alindeman.github.com/2012/11/11/rspec-rails-and-capybara-2.0-what-you-need-to-know.html

Answer 2

In addition, if you use Spork, you will usually need to reload it in order to reload changes to files in the support directory.

Answer 3

I had the same problem. However, I tried a slightly different fix: I renamed the "spec / requests" folder to "spec / features", as recommended by the link that you included. See also: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/blob/master/Capybara.md

After that, all my tests run green in Guard / Spork, as well as in the Sublime Text test plugin.