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Jtanacredi
Jtanacredi

Reputation: 53

rspec Cannot load such file after working the first time

When running through the rspec course in codeschool I keep running into the same problem. I will set up as requested and after creating zombie_spec.rb and running rspec I get the proper output listed below:

Justins-MacBook-Pro:rubyproject Justin$ rspec spec/lib/zombie_spec.rb 
Run options: include {:focus=>true}

All examples were filtered out; ignoring {:focus=>true} 
*

Pending: 
  A Zombie is named Ash 
    # Not yet implemented 
    # ./spec/lib/zombie_spec.rb:3

Finished in 0.00929 seconds 
1 example, 0 failures, 1 pending

Randomized with seed 7259

As I continue on with the first video and create the class Zombie as mentioned I receive this error when running rspec again:

Justins-MacBook-Pro:rubyproject Justin$ rspec spec/lib/zombie_spec.rb 
/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- zombie (LoadError) 
from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' 
from /Users/Justin/rubyproject/spec/lib/zombie_spec.rb:2:in `<top (required)>' 
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `load' 
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `block in load_spec_files' 
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `each' 
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `load_spec_files' 
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in `run' 
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in `run' 
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'

After this I removed everything and uninstalled and reinstalled rspec. Retried it again and returned the same results.

Any clue what is going on?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 692

Answers (4)

Second Son
Second Son

Reputation: 1551

Well if this still a problem I got into the same issue so I created a folder under spec/lib where I put all the codes and another spec/test where goes all the tests then it worked. and I also added require_relative here is the code snippet

zombie_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'
require_relative '../lib/zombie'

describe Zombie do

  it "has a name called'Jack'" do
    zb = Zombie.new
    zb.name.should == "Jack"
  end

  it "has no brains" do
    zb = Zombie.new
    zb.should be_intelligent == false
  end

end

zombie.rb

class Zombie
  attr_accessor :name

  def initialize
    @name = "Jack"
  end

  def intelligent?
    false
  end
end

Upvotes: 0

daniel barrera
daniel barrera

Reputation: 367

I use this and it worked

require_relative "zombie.rb"

Upvotes: 1

Conor
Conor

Reputation: 494

require_relative will load the file from the same directory as the rspec file

Upvotes: 3

kilala
kilala

Reputation: 36

I had pretty much the same issue, though mine never worked even once at first. Updating the zombie_spec.rb file to show the full path of my zombie.rb file seemed to get it working properly.

Eg:require "/home/me/ruby/spec/lib/zombie"

Upvotes: 2

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