When I run rspec spec/requests/users_spec.rb I get this: admin@Administrators-MacBook-Pro:~/Desktop/sample_app$ rspec spec/requests/users_spec.rb No DRb server

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Asked: June 17, 20262026-06-17T14:54:27+00:00 2026-06-17T14:54:27+00:00

When I run rspec spec/requests/users_spec.rb I get this: admin@Administrators-MacBook-Pro:~/Desktop/sample_app$ rspec spec/requests/users_spec.rb No DRb server

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When I run rspec spec/requests/users_spec.rb

I get this:

admin@Administrators-MacBook-Pro:~/Desktop/sample_app$ rspec spec/requests/users_spec.rb
No DRb server is running. Running in local process instead ...
Rack::File headers parameter replaces cache_control after Rack 1.5.
/Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/factory_girl-4.1.0/lib/factory_girl/syntax/default.rb:6:in `define': wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError)
    from /Users/admin/Desktop/sample_app/spec/factories.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:245:in `load'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:245:in `block in load'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load_dependency'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:245:in `load'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/factory_girl-4.1.0/lib/factory_girl/find_definitions.rb:16:in `block in find_definitions'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/factory_girl-4.1.0/lib/factory_girl/find_definitions.rb:15:in `each'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/factory_girl-4.1.0/lib/factory_girl/find_definitions.rb:15:in `find_definitions'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/factory_girl_rails-4.1.0/lib/factory_girl_rails/railtie.rb:26:in `block in <class:Railtie>'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:34:in `call'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:34:in `execute_hook'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:43:in `block in run_load_hooks'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:42:in `each'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/lazy_load_hooks.rb:42:in `run_load_hooks'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/application/finisher.rb:59:in `block in <module:Finisher>'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `instance_exec'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `run'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/initializable.rb:55:in `block in run_initializers'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/initializable.rb:54:in `each'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/initializable.rb:54:in `run_initializers'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/application.rb:136:in `initialize!'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/railties-3.2.11/lib/rails/railtie/configurable.rb:30:in `method_missing'
    from /Users/admin/Desktop/sample_app/config/environment.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/admin/Desktop/sample_app/spec/spec_helper.rb:8:in `require'
    from /Users/admin/Desktop/sample_app/spec/spec_helper.rb:8:in `block in <top (required)>'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork.rb:24:in `prefork'
    from /Users/admin/Desktop/sample_app/spec/spec_helper.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/admin/Desktop/sample_app/spec/requests/users_spec.rb:1:in `require'
    from /Users/admin/Desktop/sample_app/spec/requests/users_spec.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:789:in `load'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:789:in `block in load_spec_files'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:789:in `each'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:789:in `load_spec_files'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in `run'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:77:in `rescue in run'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:73:in `run'
    from /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'

this is factories.rb:

# By using the symbol ':user', we get Factory Girl to simulate the User model.
# we can create a User factory in the tests like this:
# @user = Factory(:user)
FactoryGirl.define :user do |user|
    user.name "Pavan Katepalli"
    user.email "email@pavan.com"
    user.password "foobar"
    user.password_confirmation "foobar"
end

this is users_spec:

require 'spec_helper'
require 'factory_girl_rails'

describe "Users" do

  describe "signup" do

        describe "failure" do
            it "should not make a new user" do
                lambda do
                    visit signup_path
                    fill_in "Name",         :with => ""
                    fill_in "Email",        :with => ""
                    fill_in "Password",     :with => ""
                    fill_in "Confirmation", :with => ""
                    click_button
                    response.should render_template('users/new')
                    response.should have_selector('div#error_explanation')
                end.should_not change(User, :count)
            end
        end

        describe "success" do
      it "should make a new user" do
        lambda do
          visit signup_path
          fill_in "Name",         :with => "Example User"
          fill_in "Email",        :with => "user@example.com"
          fill_in "Password",     :with => "foobar"
          fill_in "Confirmation", :with => "foobar"
          click_button
          response.should have_selector('div.flash.success',
                                        :content => "Welcome")
          response.should render_template('users/show')
        end.should change(User, :count).by(1)
      end
    end


    end

end

this is users_controller_spec.rb:

require 'spec_helper'
require 'factory_girl_rails'

describe UsersController do

    render_views

    describe "GET 'show'" do

        before(:each) do
          @user = FactoryGirl(:user)
        end

        it "should be successful" do
          get :show, :id => @user.id
          response.should be_success
        end

        it "should find the right user" do
          get :show, :id => @user.id

          # assigns(:user) returns the 
          # value of the instance variable @user
          assigns(:user).should == @user
        end

        it "should have the right title" do
          get :show, :id => @user.id
          response.should have_selector('title', :content => @user.name)
        end

        it "should have the user's name" do
          get :show, :id => @user.id
          response.should have_selector('h1', :content => @user.name)
        end

        it "should have a profile image" do
          get :show, :id => @user.id
          response.should have_selector('h1>img', :class => "gravatar")
        end
    end

    describe "GET 'new'" do

        it "should be successful" do
          get :new
          response.should be_success
        end

        it "should have the right title" do
          get :new
          response.should have_selector('title', :content => "Sign up")
        end
    end

    describe "POST 'create'" do

        describe "failure" do

            before(:each) do
                @attr = { :name => "", :email => "", :password => "",
                      :password_confirmation => "" }
            end

            it "should not create a user" do
                lambda do
                    post :create, :user => @attr
                end.should_not change(User, :count)
            end

            it "should have the right title" do
                post :create, :user => @attr
                response.should have_selector('title', :content => "Sign up")
            end

            it "should render the 'new' page" do
                post :create, :user => @attr
                response.should render_template('new')
            end
        end

        describe "success" do

            before(:each) do
                @attr = { :name => "New User", :email => "user@example.com",
                      :password => "foobar", :password_confirmation => "foobar" }
            end

            it "should create a user" do
                lambda do
                    post :create, :user => @attr
                end.should change(User, :count).by(1)
            end

            it "should redirect to the user show page" do
                post :create, :user => @attr
                response.should redirect_to(user_path(assigns(:user)))
            end

            it "should have a welcome message" do
                post :create, :user => @attr
                flash[:success].should =~ /welcome to the sample app/i
            end

        end
    end



end

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-17T14:54:28+00:00

Editorial Team

2026-06-17T14:54:28+00:00Added an answer on June 17, 2026 at 2:54 pm

The repo you linked is pretty old (the last commit to the spec folder was 2 years ago), and you’ve likely got newer versions of the gems (including FactoryGirl) that that uses installed.

Now what you can do is prefix your rspec call with bundle exec, this will run rspec in the context of the gems in your current bundle:

bundle exec rspec spec/requests/users_spec.rb

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