Rspec and named routes - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm quite new to rails, and trying to follow the railstutorial. Everything goes fine, except for my tests which can't get past the named routes (5.3.3)
My routes.rb :
SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
resources :users
match '/signup', to: 'users#new'
match '/help', to: 'static_pages#help'
match '/about', to: 'static_pages#about'
match '/contact', to: 'pages#contact'
root to: 'static_pages#home'
#Commented stuff
My firsts tests (spec/controllers/static_pages_controller_spec.rb) :
describe "Static pages" do
subject { page }
shared_examples_for "all static pages" do
it { should have_selector('h1', text: heading) }
it { should have_selector('title', text: full_title(page_title)) }
end
describe "Home page" do
before { visit root_path }
let(:heading) { 'Sample App' }
let(:page_title) { 'Home' }
it_should_behave_like "all static pages"
end
#Other tests
The spec_helper.rb looks like (without all the commented stuff)
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'rspec/autorun'
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
end
The errors I get from rspec are all like this one :
Static pages Home page it should behave like all static pages
Failure/Error: before { visit root_path }
NameError:
undefined local variable or method `root_path' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_2::Nested_1::Nested_1:0x00000004a12210>
Shared Example Group: "all static pages" called from ./spec/controllers/static_pages_controller_spec.rb:17
# ./spec/controllers/static_pages_controller_spec.rb:13:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
I already tried using
include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
in the spec_helper, but it changed my errors to
Static pages Home page it should behave like all static pages
Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
SystemStackError:
stack level too deep
# /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/forwardable.rb:185
I also tried different way of renaming my routes, but none of them worked. I'm back to the tutorial version.
If it can be of any help in finding what exactly is a problem, I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, with rails 3.2.1 and ruby 1.9.2p290. Hope you can help, I spend quite a while googling for a solution and didn't find any ^^'

Answer 1

Named routes should work if you put the following in rspec_helper.rb:
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
...
end
Is that how you set it up?

Answer 2

I don't think you have access to named routes inside of your rspec controller specs. You could however just do visit('/'), which is the equivalent of root_path.

Answer 3

Google brought me here, even my error message doesn't fit 100%.
In my case Capybara command visitis unknown...
Error:
NoMethodError:
undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xa49a73c>
Since Capybara 2.0 one has to use folder spec/features capybara commands don't work in folder spec/requests anymore.
That helped me:
http://alindeman.github.com/2012/11/11/rspec-rails-and-capybara-2.0-what-you-need-to-know.html
Hope you find this usefull.

Answer 4

I had the same problem, with the same Tutorial. It turns out that I needed to just restart the Spork service, and all worked fine.
The solution posted by Tom L worked for me, but when I removed that line and restarted Spork, that also fixed the problem.
Hope that helps out any other people who are wary about deviating from the tutorial's code!

Answer 5

You should have used
rails generate rspec:install
instead of
rspec --init
and you wouldn't have had to modify the config file.
Don't do it now though or your application will break and you'll have to waste some more time figuring out why it broke.

Answer 6

Named routes should work if you put the following in rails_helper.rb not the spec_helper.rb:
checkout at my rails_helper.rb code
# This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate rspec:install'
require 'spec_helper'
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path('../config/environment', __dir__)
# Prevent database truncation if the environment is production
if Rails.env.production?
abort('The Rails environment is running in production mode!')
end
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'capybara/rails'
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
config.include Devise::Test::ControllerHelpers, type: :controller
config.include Devise::Test::ControllerHelpers, type: :view
config.include Warden::Test::Helpers
end
begin
ActiveRecord::Migration.maintain_test_schema!
rescue ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError => e
puts e.to_s.strip
exit 1
end
RSpec.configure do |config|
# Remove this line if you're not using ActiveRecord or ActiveRecord fixtures
config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!
# Filter lines from Rails gems in backtraces.
config.filter_rails_from_backtrace!
end