Setting up a new RoR project using Rspec and Capybara

Question

I'm trying to learn RoR following this tutorial and I'm currently in chapter 3. The tutorial works fine if I follow it line-by-line. However, the commands used in the tutorial suppress generation of default tests. When I try to keep them and possibly use them in my project, I always hit a wall somewhere.

Could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

$ rails new myproject
$ cd myproject/
$ echo "gem 'rspec'" >> Gemfile
$ echo "gem 'rspec-rails'" >> Gemfile
$ echo "gem 'capybara'" >> Gemfile
$ bundle install
$ bundle --binstubs
$ rails generate rspec:install
$ rails generate controller StaticPages home help about

Then I edit the spec/views/static_pages/home.html.erb_spec.rb file, to test whether capybara works:

require 'spec_helper'
#require 'capybara'
#require 'capybara/rails'
#require 'capybara/rspec'

describe "static_pages/home.html.erb" do
  it 'should have a right title' do
    visit '/static_pages/home'
    page.should have_selector('title', :text => 'Home')
  end
end

Running bin/rspec at this point, obviously, ends up with a failure. Well, a failure could have been expected. The reason for one of these failures is more alarming, though:

  1) static_pages/home.html.erb should have a right title
     Failure/Error: visit '/static_pages/home'
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_5:0x00000003dfd268>
     # ./spec/views/static_pages/home.html.erb_spec.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

The visit method, which AFAIK is part of Capybara, has not been found. Uncommenting the three extra requires in home.html.erb_spec.rb does not change anything in the result.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Or what I should do better?

Rails version: 3.2.6

Answer 1

Put your test in requests directory instead of views.