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iliveinapark
iliveinapark

Reputation: 327

FactoryGirl and Devise helpers not working in specs

Running rails 3.2.3 with guard/spork/rspec/factory_girl and have the following in my spec helper:

Spork.prefork do
  ...
  RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
    config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
    ...
  end 
end

And have appropriate models/factories setup so that this should work:

describe "GET index" do
  describe "as logged in Person without Attendee record" do
    @person = create :person
    sign_in @person
    it "redirects to Attendee new page" do
      visit school_programs_root
      current_path.should == new_school_programs_attendees
    end 
  end 
end

However, when I run the spec I get:

Exception encountered: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `create' for #<Class:0x007f860825a798>>

When I change line 3 of the spec to:

@person = FactoryGirl.create :person

The factory is created, but I get:

Exception encountered: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `sign_in' for #<Class:0x007fcee4364b50>>

All this suggests to me that the helpers are not getting loaded for my controller specs.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1240

Answers (2)

gayavat
gayavat

Reputation: 19398

Add to your spec:

include Devise::TestHelpers

Upvotes: -1

Wolfram Arnold
Wolfram Arnold

Reputation: 7273

There is a known issue between Spork and FactoryGirl related to class reloading. The mechanism around this that I've used for years was once documented on the Spork Wiki, but has disappeard (why? -- it seems to still be necessary). It's still documented as a FactoryGirl issue report on github.

In brief:

In Gemfile, turn off the auto-requiring of FactoryGirl:

gem 'factory_girl_rails', '~> 3.5.0', require: false

In spec_helper.rb, in the each_run block, require FactoryGirl and include the Syntax Methods:

Spork.each_run do
  # This code will be run each time you run your specs.
  require 'factory_girl_rails'

  RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
  end

end

This fixes the first error. On the second error, the Devise one, you need to run sign_in inside a before block, see below the fixes in your example. That should work for you.

describe "GET index" do
  describe "as logged in Person without Attendee record" do
    before do    
      @person = create :person
      sign_in @person
    end

    it "redirects to Attendee new page" do
      visit school_programs_root
      current_path.should == new_school_programs_attendees
    end 
  end 
end

Upvotes: 2

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