I am trying to run rspec for Ruby on Rails. I am running Rails 4.1.1. I have installed the gem, have established a spec folder with some tests. I have created a directory through $ rails g rspec:install
I tried to create a testing database through $ rake db:test:prepare
but it throws this error message:
WARNING: db:test:prepare is deprecated. The Rails test helper now maintains your test
schema automatically, see the release notes for details.
So I ended up looking at this stack overflow post, and of the two options, the one that worked was:
rake db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=test
So, now I need to run rspec.
When I run $ rspec spec
from the command line I get this error:
/Users/myname/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/
kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- rails_helper (LoadError)
How do I resolve this so that I can start running tests?
gem list --local rspec
? rspec-rails made an incompatible change a few versions back that's probably biting you because you're not using bundle exec
or binstubs. Older versions use, generate, and require spec_helper only; newer versions use, generate, and require a spec_helper and a rails_helper. If you mix versions (which is likely what happened here), things will break.
There is some problem with rspec V3. But in your case you are using V2.
change
require 'rails_helper'
to
require 'spec_helper'
Other description find here https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/problem-with-rspec
For V3 :
If someone using rspec V3 then similar error occurs when generator not run. So before trying anything run generator.
rails generate rspec:install
If you are getting a huge list of warning on your console. Then you need to remove --warnings
from .rspec
file.
I actually just had this error on rails 4 with rspec 3, but in my case I forgot to run the generator:
rails generate rspec:install
Also I had to remove warnings
from .rspec
, as stated by one of rpsec developers
For me, the problem was due to a different "rspec-support" version loaded and activated. I solved by prepending a "bundle exec":
bundle exec rspec
For newer versions (3.5), if you need to run the generator, rails generate rspec:install
doesn't work for me. I used:
rspec --init
Creates .rspec
and spec/spec_helper.rb
.
EDIT: Just in case, I found out that I installed rspec gem for ruby, not the one for Rails, so rspec:install wasn't available. Should use https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.
Always remember to run the rspec
or the bundle exec rspec
from the root of your project. Something like:
bundle exec rspec spec/features/file_test_spec.rb
Please install the following gem:
gem install 'rspec-rails'
And then run: rails generate rspec:install
This will generate the spec folder and rails_helper.rb and spec_helper.rb. Your error should be taken care once this is done.
Sometimes you need to run rspec command from Project's parent directory
None of these suggestions worked for me on Rails 4.2.0 with rspec-rails 3.2.3.
Instead, I placed the following two lines at the top of my spec file:
require 'rails_helper'
require 'spec_helper'
Now I can execute rspec spec/features/my_spec.rb
.
I had the same error but there was no reference to rails_helper
anywhere and we weren't even using rails.
However, I eventually found that my ~/.rspec
was requiring rails_helper
(presumably from creating rails app in the past) which was causing the issue ...
$ cat ~/.rspec
--color
--format documentation
--require spec_helper
--require rails_helper
The fix is as simple as removing that line. Hope this helps someone else grappling with the same issue!
.../2.4.0/gems/rspec-core-3.7.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1455:in
require': cannot load such file -- rails_helper (LoadError)` in Rails 5
One possibility that worked for me is to make sure you're requiring spec_helper
. RubyMine can default require rspec
and this can sometimes lead to this error.
I got the error you described when running a controller test. However, when I ran a model test, I got the true error. it ended up saying that the error was occuring because my database wasn't migrated. I fixed the error by running this command...
rake db:test:prepare
rails db:test:prepare
instead of rake
. Both will work but using the rails
keyword is the preferred way now.
You may also have your file named incorrectly. Make sure it ends in _spec.rb
. I had misspelled my file to end in _soec.rb
and was scratching my head for a while...
For someone. If you got that error when you trynna test a specific file. you might can like this
$ bundle exec rspec ./spec/features/user_login_spec.rb
$ bundle exec rspec ./spec/models/user_login_spec.rb
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