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Tushar Saurabh
Tushar Saurabh

Reputation: 687

rspec - command not found

As part of assignment I am creating a basic website. When rails server is not running and I execute "rspec" for root directory, the rspec is executed. However tests fail. When I start rails server and execute rspec from another terminal window (after going to root directory), rspec doesnt work. I get the following message -

Tushars-MacBook-Pro:recipefinder tusharsaurabh$ rspec -bash: rspec: command not found

Please let me know, how to fix it.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 24143

Answers (5)

gcs_dev
gcs_dev

Reputation: 421

I solved this problem using: gem install rspec. There are others solutions that I didn't try like: sudo gem install rspec, another one bundle exec rspec spec

Upvotes: 7

optimus
optimus

Reputation: 58

As of rails 7 use

**bin/bundle exec rspec spec**

Upvotes: 0

Promise Preston
Promise Preston

Reputation: 29098

I had this same challenge when working on a Rails 6 application:

After adding rspec to my Gemfile using:

group :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 5.0'
end

And installing it using bundle install when I run the command rspec I get the error:

rspec command not found

Here's how I fixed it:

Solution 1

Since rspec is not globally installed on your system, but in your project, you will need to run the command each time:

bundle exec rspec

Solution 2

Instead of the verbose bundle exec rspec we could generate binstubs for rspec so can that we run our specs with bin/rspec or just rspec using the command:

bundle binstubs rspec-core

Note: Close your current terminal/shell and reopen a new one after running the command.

Now you can run the command rspec and everything will be fine.

Upvotes: 1

Max Filippov
Max Filippov

Reputation: 2092

Maybe your rspec command isn't installed system-wide, that's ok, try running

bundle exec rspec

It should work.

Upvotes: 35

Mohammad Shahadat Hossain
Mohammad Shahadat Hossain

Reputation: 1349

You don't need to run the rails server to execute the rspec. Rspec runs standalone. just run the rspec spec. It will run the specs you have written in the spec folder of your project.

If you need both to be running then you need to do something like this.It might work. Please try it.

add to your gem file:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails'
end

hit bundle from your console.

bundle
rails generate rspec:install

Upvotes: 2

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