rspec users - Oct 2007 - RSpec seems to be having a hard time loading Helper classes

I am getting the error when I run the command: rake spec

This is a new project with not current test written besides the ones
auto-created for me.

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$ rake spec
(in /Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in
`load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant ProjectsHelper
(NameError)
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:in
`const_missing''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:464:in
`const_missing''
        from ./spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb:3
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:488:in
`load''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:488:in
`load''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in
`new_constants_in''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:488:in
`load''
        from
/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/behaviour_runner.rb:106:in
`load_specs''
         ... 14 levels...
        from
/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/option_parser.rb:155:in
`parse''
        from
/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/option_parser.rb:88:in
`create_behaviour_runner''
        from
/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/command_line.rb:14:in
`run''
        from
/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/bin/spec:3
rake aborted!
Command ruby
-I"/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib"
"/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/bin/spec"
"spec/controllers/projects_controller_spec.rb"
"spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb"
"spec/models/project_spec.rb"
"spec/views/projects/edit.rhtml_spec.rb"
"spec/views/projects/index.rhtml_spec.rb"
"spec/views/projects/new.rhtml_spec.rb"
"spec/views/projects/show.rhtml_spec.rb" --options
"/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/config/../spec/spec.opts"
failed
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The projects_helper_spec.rb file does exist in the helper dir only
containing the following:

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require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../spec_helper''

describe ProjectsHelper do # Helper methods can be called directly in
the examples (it blocks)
end
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Thanks in advance for any help.
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On 10 Oct 2007, at 22:45, Chris Olsen wrote:
> I am getting the error when I run the command: rake spec
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/ 
> active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in
> `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant ProjectsHelper
> "spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb"
"spec/models/project_spec.rb"
> +++++++++
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../spec_helper''
>
> describe ProjectsHelper do # Helper methods can be called directly in
> the examples (it blocks)
> end
> +++++++++
So, it the problem is that the ProjectsHelper constant doesn''t exist,  
which probably means that app/helpers/projects_helper doesn''t exist,  
or doesn''t declare the ProjectsHelper module.

It could, of course, also be a pluralisation problem, with  
ProjectsHelper being called in place of ProjectHelper.

Anyway, whatever it is, you need to make sure that the class/module  
name following ''describe'' in your helper spec is actually
defined
somewhere.

Matt

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That was the problem.  I didn''t even occur to me that it was looking
for
that helper class.

Thanks for the help.
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