Question

Came across this error when trying out the ruby on rails tutorial section with rspec on a windows platform using jruby 1.6:

c:\rails_projects\sample_app>bundle exec rspec spec/
org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1038:in `require': no such file to load -- spec_helper
 (LoadError)
        from c:/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec    .rb:1:in `(root)'
        from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1063:in `load'
        from c:/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec
.rb:386:in `load_spec_files'
        from org/jruby/RubyArray.java:2458:in `collect'
        from c:/jruby-1.6.0.RC2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspe
c/core/configuration.rb:386:in `load_spec_files'
        from c:/jruby-1.6.0.RC2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspe
c/core/command_line.rb:18:in `run'
        from c:/jruby-1.6.0.RC2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspe
c/core/runner.rb:55:in `run_in_process'
        from c:/jruby-1.6.0.RC2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspe
c/core/runner.rb:46:in `run'
        from c:/jruby-1.6.0.RC2/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspe
c/core/runner.rb:10:in `autorun'
        from org/jruby/RubyProc.java:268:in `call'
        from org/jruby/RubyProc.java:232:in `call'

Found the answer which appears missing from the tutorial:

c:\rails_projects\sample_app>rails generate rspec:install

Answer 1

After running

rails generate rspec:install

Place your *_spec.rb files under (in your example) c:\rails_projects\sample_app\spec\model. Then specify relative path with require_relative

require_relative '../spec_helper'