Ruby on Rails , Rspec Error while testing

Question

I am following the tutorial from Michael Hartl . I tried the first test example for testing the app with Rspec and when I execute this command "bundle exec rspec spec\requests\static_pages_spec.rb" I get this error.

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Failures:

  1) Home page should have the content 'Sample App'
     Failure/Error: visit '/static_pages/home'
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x39e1510 @example=nil>
     # ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:4:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.001 seconds
1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:3 # Home page should have the content 'Sample App'

static_pages_spec.rb

describe "Home page" do
  it "should have the content 'Sample App'" do
    visit '/static_pages/home'
    page.should have_content('Sample App')
 end
end

Gemfile.rb

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.2.1'

group :development, :test do
  gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.5'
  gem 'rspec-rails', '2.10.0'
end

group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails', '3.2.4'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '3.2.2'
  gem 'uglifier', '1.2.3'
end

gem 'jquery-rails'

group :test do
  gem 'capybara', '1.1.2'
end

group :production do
  gem 'pg', '0.12.2'
end

The problem is not with content of the page . 'visit' is not recognized. @Dave - For visit to work you need the capybara and that's installed . Don't know why this is still happening — premprakash
– premprakash, Commented Sep 4, 2012 at 1:08
@Dave - Thanks . I read it fully and it says By default the capybara DSL is included automatically if the file is in spec/requests , so since my static_pages_spec.rb is inside spec/requests it should'nt be a problem . Please advice . — premprakash
– premprakash, Commented Sep 4, 2012 at 1:36
See this discussion: github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/360 might be relevant, but depends on what's in spec_helper.rb. — Chris Salzberg
– Chris Salzberg, Commented Sep 4, 2012 at 1:52

Dave Newton · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-04 01:53:41Z

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You need to require 'spec_helper' in your spec source.

Your spec_helper should include both rspec/rails and capybara/rails in it.

You'll want to use get instead of visit if you want to access the response, however.

edited Sep 4, 2012 at 1:53

answered Sep 4, 2012 at 0:44

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premprakash Over a year ago

Wow ! Got it working . @Dave : Thanks a lot. Did exactly the above things and it worked . T

DmitrySharikov · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12 17:36:51Z

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If static_pages_spec.rb has string require 'spec_helper' and you get

Failure/Error: visit '/static_pages/home'

add to spec_helper.rb string config.include Capybara::DSL

it helped me

edited Feb 12, 2014 at 17:36

answered Feb 12, 2014 at 17:28

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