Question

My rspec directory is beginning to get a little cluttered, so I moved all the specs to a cases directory. Upon doing so rspec stopped treating *_controller_spec.rb as :type => :controller. What is the magic way to get this behavior back?

Answer 1

Relevant comment form a discussion on the rspec-rails github page:

The integration rspec-rails provides for the various spec types is based on modules that get included example groups based on the convention of which directory the spec files are in. Have a look at the example folder to see all the modules that get included each spec type. example.rb wires it all up based on the file_path.

You’ll need to do this wiring yourself since you’re outside of the "normal" conventions for rspec-rails. You can either include the modules manually in each example group, use metadata to tag the example groups with their type, and include based on the type, or use a similar file_path convention approach as rspec-rails does.

So basically, make a copy of this file and replace all the spec in calls to escaped_path by spec cases, then paste that into your RSpec::configure block. There might be an easier way to do it, this is just what I found after googling for a few seconds (never actually tried this myself).