My java web application is running on tomcat at http://localhost:8080/
Writing my first spec, home_spec:
require 'spec_helper'
describe "home" do
it "should render the home page" do
visit "/"
page.should have_content("hello world")
end
end
And running:
rspec
I get:
F
Failures:
1) home should render the home page
Failure/Error: visit "/"
NoMethodError:
undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x242870b7>
# ./spec/home/home_spec.rb:7:in `(root)'
Finished in 0.012 seconds
1 example, 1 failure
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/home/home_spec.rb:6 # home should render the home page
Shouldn't this work because I have included capybara in the spec_helper?
How will it know to visit the correct url? what if my url is localhost:3030 or localhost:8080?
My gemfile:
source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem "activerecord"
gem "rspec"
gem "capybara"
gem "activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter"
My spec_helper:
require 'capybara/rspec'
Regarding to rspec issues (https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/360)
you should put
config.include Capybara::DSL
in spec_helper.rb, inside the config block.
The default directory that Capybara::RSpec
now looks at to include the Capybara::DSL
and Capybara::RSpecMatchers
is changed from requests
to features
.
After I renamed my requests
directory to features
I got the matcher and DSL methods available again without having to explicitly include them.
See the following commit
Also make sure your tests are in the /spec/features directory. According to rspec-rails and capybara 2.0, Capybara v2 and higher will not be available by default in RSpec request specs. They suggest to "...move any tests that use capybara from spec/requests to spec/features."
By default the capybara DSL is included automatically if the file is in spec/requests, spec/integration or if the example group has :type => :request
.
Because your file is in spec/home the capybara helpers aren't being included. You can either conform to one of the patterns above or adding include Capybara::DSL
should also do the trick (you might also need to replicate some of the before(:each)
stuff that would be setup.)
First check it out
If you are not success,
Add this code your end of the your spec helper actually out of the RSpec.configure block as well
module ::RSpec::Core
class ExampleGroup
include Capybara::DSL
include Capybara::RSpecMatchers
end
end
1) Add to ‘rails_helper’ config:
config.include Capybara::DSL
config.include Capybara::RSpecMatchers
And comment out the `require 'spec_helper'` line.
2) Add to 'spec_helper':
require 'rails_helper'