Ruby on Rails TDD; Error while testing

Question

I am trying to follow TDD on Rails Tutorial which is available online here

While testing first app, I got an error.

My spec.rb code is this:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Static pages" do
  describe "Home page" do

    it "should have the content 'Sample App'" do
      visit '/static_pages/home'
      page.should have_content('Sample App')
    end
  end
end

After running testing I got this error:

Failure/Error: visit '/static_pages/home'
 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `visit' for #    <RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xa833e5c># ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:8:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

I will really appreciate your help.

What is the file's path and name? Is it spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb like in the tutorial? Rspec is quite "magical" about its available and included test helpers and methods based on the name of the file, I have found. — berkes
– berkes, Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 11:43

Thilo · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-08 11:54:17Z

3

The visit method is not part of RSpec - it's provided by capybara. Just add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'capybara'

answered Mar 8, 2012 at 11:54

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scaryguy Over a year ago

I already have capybara installed but I get the same error? I see capybara 1.1.2 installed in my gemfile list and also "gem list" command results. Do you have any idea?

Thilo Over a year ago

@scaryguy Just a shot in the dark - try include Capybara::DSL in your spec_helper.rb or directly in your spec.

scaryguy Over a year ago

@Thilo I resolved the issue yesterday, thanks anyway :) At the moment, I'm busy with pulling my hair working on nokogiri...

sambehera Over a year ago

@scaryguy how did you resolve this issue? Im curious as i have the same issue. I tried including Capybara::DSL in spec_helper.rb but it warns me not to include capybara in a global space... ?

scaryguy Over a year ago

I'm sorry @sambehera I really don't remember, it's been a while since I worked on that project.

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Victor · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-30 08:18:40Z

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Try add:

require 'rails_helper'
require 'spec_helper'

to your spec.rb and:

require 'capybara'

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include Capybara::DSL 
....

to spec_helper.rb

and gem 'capybara', '2.2.0' to gemfile

answered Nov 30, 2014 at 8:18

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