On Aug 22, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Daniel Lidström wrote: > Hello, > > I am a complete newbie to both ruby and rspec. I am following the > steps in the railstutorial.org book to learn ruby on rails. The > current step involves setting up rspec for the tests, and this is > where I am stuck. Here's what I am doing: > > > $ cat spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb > require 'spec_helper' > > describe PagesController do > > describe "GET 'home'" do > it "should be successful" do > get 'home' > response.should be_success > end > end > > describe "GET 'contact'" do > it "should be successful" do > get 'contact' > response.should be_success > end > end > > end > > $ rake --trace spec > (in /home/daniel/programming/rails_projects/sample_app) > ** Invoke spec (first_time) > ** Invoke db:test:prepare (first_time) > ** Invoke db:abort_if_pending_migrations (first_time) > ** Invoke environment (first_time) > ** Execute environment > ** Execute db:abort_if_pending_migrations > ** Execute db:test:prepare > ** Invoke db:test:load (first_time) > ** Invoke db:test:purge (first_time) > ** Invoke environment > ** Execute db:test:purge > ** Execute db:test:load > ** Invoke db:schema:load (first_time) > ** Invoke environment > ** Execute db:schema:load > ** Execute spec > ./spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:1:in `require': no such > file to load -- spec_helper (LoadError) > from ./spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:1 > rake aborted! > bundle exec /usr/bin/ruby1.8 -Ilib -Ispec "./spec/controllers/ > pages_controller_spec.rb" failed > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.0.0.beta.19/lib/rspec/core/ > rake_task.rb:72 > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1112:in `verbose' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.0.0.beta.19/lib/rspec/core/ > rake_task.rb:65:in `send' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.0.0.beta.19/lib/rspec/core/ > rake_task.rb:65 > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `call' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `execute' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `each' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `execute' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in > `invoke_with_call_chain' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in > `invoke_with_call_chain' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:in `invoke' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in > `invoke_task' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `each' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in > `standard_exception_handling' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:in `top_level' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in `run' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in > `standard_exception_handling' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in `run' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31 > /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load' > /usr/bin/rake:19 > > So it seems spec_helper is not being found, am I right? A search of my > system (Ubuntu 10.04) shows this file in several places: > > $ sudo find / -name spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.beta.18/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-mocks-2.0.0.beta.19/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thor-0.14.0/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/launchy-0.3.7/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.3.0/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.beta.19/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.0.0.beta.19/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.4.8/spec/runtime/ > interval_skip_list/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.4.8/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-rails-1.3.2/generators/rspec/ > templates/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-rails-1.3.2/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.0.0.beta.18/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webrat-0.7.1/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webrat-0.7.1/spec/integration/merb/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webrat-0.7.1/spec/integration/mechanize/ > spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/arel-0.4.0/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-mocks-2.0.0.beta.18/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-test-0.5.4/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-rails-2.0.0.beta.18/lib/generators/ > rspec/install/templates/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-rails-2.0.0.beta.18/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-rails-2.0.0.beta.19/lib/generators/ > rspec/install/templates/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-rails-2.0.0.beta.19/spec/ > spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webrat-0.7.2.beta.1/spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webrat-0.7.2.beta.1/spec/integration/merb/ > spec/spec_helper.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/webrat-0.7.2.beta.1/spec/integration/ > mechanize/spec/spec_helper.rb > > My Gemfile looks like this: > > > $ cat Gemfile > source 'http://rubygems.org' > > gem 'rails', '3.0.0.rc' > > # Bundle edge Rails instead: > # gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git' > > gem 'sqlite3-ruby', :require => 'sqlite3' > > group :development, :test do > gem 'rspec-rails', '>= 2.0.0.beta.19' > end > > > I have done a few web searches but I could not find anything to help > me. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am very anxious to get > started with this wonderful environment! Let me know if there's any > additional information needed to pinpoint the problem. > > Regards, > > Daniel Lidström > Stockholm, Sweden
RSpec adds ./spec to the load path so it should find ./spec/spec_helper.rb when you say require 'spec_helper'. I've got co-workers who are using ubuntu and this problem hasn't come up, so I'm a bit mystified. Anybody else suffering this problem? _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
