On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Ants Pants <antsmailingl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 10 January 2012 14:56, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:21 AM, Ants Pants wrote:
>>
>> > Under Ruby 1.8.7 - Rails 2.3.11 - Rspec 1:
>> >
>> > I have model_macros.rb under spec/spec_helpers and it runs beautifully.
>> >
>> > Dir[File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'spec_helpers',
>> > '**', '*.rb'))].each { require f }
>> > config.extend(ModelMacros, :type => :model)
>> >
>> > Exactly the same code under Ruby 1.9.2 - Rails 3.1.3 - Rspec 2 gives me
>> > ... uninitialized constant ModelMacros (NameError)
>> >
>> > Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/spec_helpers/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}
>> > config.extend(ModelMacros, :type => :model)
>> >
>> > .... which makes sense as it's missing the namespace (but how did it run
>> > under 2.3.11. Is Ruby 1.8.7 more lenient? - I doubt it)
>>
>> That would make sense if Rails was autoloading (implicit) this, but it's
>> not - spec_helper.rb is loading it explicitly. I think the namespace thing
>> is a red herring.
>>
>> > So I added the namespace and I got rid of that error
>> >
>> > config.extend(SpecHelpers::ModelMacros, :type => :model)
>> >
>> > But sadly the methods that are called from within the model specs are
>> > unable to be found...... Exception encountered: #<NoMethodError: undefined
>> > method `it_should_require_attributes'
>> >
>> > This is only solved by including extend SpecHelpers::ModelMacros in the
>> > model spec file. Not what I want.
>>
>> Which suggests that the config is being silently ignored, even though the
>> loading is working.
>>
>> > Is there something I am missing while migrating all my code? Is there
>> > some really basic Ruby thing I have forgotten to do to get this module
>> > included?
>> >
>> > I also tried config.include(SpecHelpers::ModelMacros, :type => :model)
>> > but to no avail.
>>
>> That would never have worked under any version because "include" exposes
>> methods to the example scope, not the group scope:
>>
>> describe "something" do
>> # methods in modules added using extend are available here
>> it "does something" do
>> # methods in modules added using include are available here
>> end
>> end
>>
>> > Any help would be great, thank you.
>>
>> My best guess is that you don't need the namespace, and you should leave
>> Rails out of loading this. Try this:
>>
>> Dir["spec_helpers/**/*.rb"].each {|f| require f}
>> RSpec.configure do |config|
>> config.extend(ModelMacros, :type => :model)
>> end
>>
>> That should work to load the file, since RSpec adds"./spec" to the
>> $LOAD_PATH.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, it might be that ":type => :model" isn't working
>> correctly, so try "path => /spec\/model/" instead. Please report back and
>> let us know which, if either, works for you.
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
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>
>
> Hey David, thanks for the reply.
>
> Sadly nothing worked and here are my results
>
> With ....
> Dir["spec_helpers/**/*.rb"].each {|f| puts "loading ... #{f}"; require f}
>
> I didn't find any file to load and got the following error....
>
> /home/anthony/Development/websites/ruby/GMFT/spec/spec_helper.rb:84:in
> `block in <top (required)>': uninitialized constant ModelMacros (NameError)
>
> With ....
> Dir["spec/spec_helpers/**/*.rb"].each {|f| puts "loading ... #{f}"; require
> f}
>
> I found a file to load but require couldn't find it ....
>
> loading ... spec/spec_helpers/model_macros.rb
> /home/anthony/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@gmft313/gems/activesupport-3.1.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:240:in
> `require': no such file to load -- spec/spec_helpers/model_macros.rb
> (LoadError)
>
> With ....
> Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/spec_helpers/**/*.rb")].each {|f| puts "loading
> ... #{f}"; require f}
>
> I found a file to load, apparently it loaded it but then the
> ModelMacros#method could not be found....
>
> loading ...
> /home/anthony/Development/websites/ruby/GMFT/spec/spec_helpers/model_macros.rb
> /home/anthony/Development/websites/ruby/GMFT/spec/model/event_group_spec.rb:27:in
> `block in <top (required)>': undefined method `it_should_require_attributes'
> for #<Class:0xd25d5fc> (NoMethodError
>
> I also tried with :path in the third example but nada.
>
> I've also tried all of the above running rspec 2.7.0 and rspec-rails 2.7.0.
> No joy.
>
> It must be something I'm doing wrong. But what?!!!
What's in model_macros.rb?
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