On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Samantha John wrote: > I am new to rspec.
Welcome! > I followed a few tutorials and set it up to test my > existing rails project. I ran the rspec generators and created > spec/user_spec.rb to test my user.rb model. > > The user.rb file starts with: > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > > > The user_spec.rb file starts with: > > describe User do > > When I run the test (using rake spec, bundle exec autotest, rspec > spec/user_spec.rb ) > I get the error: > > `const_missing': uninitialized constant User (NameError) > > within the following trace: > > loading autotest/rspec2 > bundle exec /Users/Sam/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bin/ruby -S > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/bin/rspec > --tty > '/Users/Sam/Documents/Development/Friend-Mapper/friend_mapper_rails/spec/user_spec.rb' > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/backward_compatibility.rb:20:in > `const_missing': uninitialized constant User (NameError) > from > /Users/Sam/Documents/Development/Friend-Mapper/friend_mapper_rails/spec/user_spec.rb:1 > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in > `load' > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in > `load_spec_files' > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in > `map' > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in > `load_spec_files' > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:in > `run' > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:55:in > `run_in_process' > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:46:in > `run' > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:10:in > `autorun' > from > /Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/bin/rspec:4 > > I tried a sample app (http://relishapp.com/rspec/file/twominutetutorial) > which worked fine. I suspect that the issue is that rspec is not loading > up the files from my rails project. Which configurations do I need to > fix for this to work? When you run the rspec:install generator, it creates a spec/spec_helper.rb file that loads the Rails environment. This file needs to be required from your user_spec.rb file, which should be spec/models/user_spec.rb, not spec/user_spec.rb. HTH, David _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
