Question

I have a requests spec that makes multiple calls to visit within a single block (visits ‘/sessions/new’ and visits ‘/admin’). This results in:

ActionView::Template::Error:
       undefined local variable or method `view_factory' for #<#<Class:0x007fedda1d5180>:0x007fedda1bb118>

Any way to fix this? Thanks. The code is:

describe "Admin" do

  before do
    visit new_session_path
    fill_in "Email",    with: user.email
    fill_in "Password", with: user.password
    click_button "Submit"
  end

  describe "GET /admin" do
    it "should be successful" do
      visit admin_dashboard_path
    end
  end

end

Update:

After some searching, I found that the errors only occure when running with Spork. Here is my spec_helper.rb flile that configures Spork:

require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'
require 'simplecov'

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'

SimpleCov.start if ENV["COVERAGE"]

Spork.prefork do

  require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
  require 'rspec/rails'
  require 'capybara/rspec'

  Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}

  RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.mock_with :mocha

    config.include Auth::Helper
  end

end

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and found a little workaround. I assume that view_factory is a helper method defined in a plugin and it is included to the application helper with something like ActionController::Base.helper FactoryHelperModule.

What I did was to include the following snippet to my app/helpers/application_helper.rb:

if Rails.env.test?
  include FactoryHelperModule
end

If the helper methods are in a module and if the helper methods are declared like mine, there is a chance that this will work. I haven’t found yet why this happens though.

Btw, I am on rails 3.0.4 and spork 0.9.0.rc9