Question

My Problem / Question

I am unable to run the very basic rspec test in listing 3.9 I feel like I am missing something very basic which is causing the static_pages_spec to return a LoadError. Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong?

The Error

E:\CSProj\RailsTutorial\sample_app>bundle exec rspec spec/request/static_pages_s
pec.rb
C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.11.1/lib/rspec
/core/configuration.rb:780:in load': cannot load such file -- E:/CSProj/RailsTu
torial/sample_app/spec/request/static_pages_spec.rb (LoadError)
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.1
1.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:780:inblock in load_spec_files’
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.1
1.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:780:in map'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.1
1.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:780:inload_spec_files’
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.1
1.1/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in run'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.1
1.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:69:inrun’
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.1
1.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:8:in `block in autorun’

The Code

I am using the following code: https://github.com/adoliver/sample_app/blob/static-pages/spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb

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

Some information about my development environment

Windows 7
Used railsInstaller
Using windows native command line
Previous steps in the tutorial worked.

E:\CSProj\RailsTutorial\sample_app>ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16) [i386-mingw32]

E:\CSProj\RailsTutorial\sample_app>rails -v
Rails 3.2.9

My bundles:

E:\CSProj\RailsTutorial\sample_app>bundle list
Gems included by the bundle:

• actionmailer (3.2.9)
• actionpack (3.2.9)
• activemodel (3.2.9)
• activerecord (3.2.9)
• activeresource (3.2.9)
• activesupport (3.2.9)
• arel (3.0.2)
• builder (3.0.4)
• bundler (1.0.22)
• capybara (1.1.2)
• childprocess (0.3.6)
• coffee-rails (3.2.2)
• coffee-script (2.2.0)
• coffee-script-source (1.4.0)
• diff-lcs (1.1.3)
• erubis (2.7.0)
• execjs (1.4.0)
• ffi (1.2.0)
• hike (1.2.1)
• i18n (0.6.1)
• journey (1.0.4)
• jquery-rails (2.0.2)
• json (1.7.5)
• libwebsocket (0.1.6.1)
• mail (2.4.4)
• mime-types (1.19)
• multi_json (1.3.7)
• nokogiri (1.5.5)
• polyglot (0.3.3)
• rack (1.4.1)
• rack-cache (1.2)
• rack-ssl (1.3.2)
• rack-test (0.6.2)
• rails (3.2.9)
• railties (3.2.9)
• rake (10.0.2)
• rdoc (3.12)
• rspec (2.11.0)
• rspec-core (2.11.1)
• rspec-expectations (2.11.3)
• rspec-mocks (2.11.3)
• rspec-rails (2.11.0)
• rubyzip (0.9.9)
• sass (3.2.3)
• sass-rails (3.2.5)
• selenium-webdriver (2.26.0)
• sprockets (2.2.1)
• sqlite3 (1.3.5)
• thor (0.16.0)
• tilt (1.3.3)
• treetop (1.4.12)
• tzinfo (0.3.35)
• uglifier (1.2.3)
• websocket (1.0.3)
• xpath (0.1.4)

Answer 1

You report:

load': cannot load such file -- E:/CSProj/RailsTu torial/sample_app/spec/request/static_pages_spec.rb (LoadError)

I don’t know if this is silly, but the specs in my directory tree are in /app/spec/requests, not app/spec/request.