If there is a list devoted to ActiveRecord problems then I would appreciate a redirect. In the absence of same I need some assistance with part of RoRs stack, namely ActiveRecord and the testing thereof. I have a cli project which only uses AR-4.0 and whatever other stuff that gem pulls in. I am trialing the project witjh AR-4.1 and I am getting this error when I try to run my cucumber features: undefined method `assertions' for #<String:0x00000003ba4688> (NoMethodError) /home/byrnejb/Projects/Software/theHeart/code/hll_th_cadex_xfer/libexec/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.0.3/lib/rspec/matchers.rb:902:in `method_missing' /home/byrnejb/Projects/Software/theHeart/code/hll_th_cadex_xfer/libexec/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/minitest-5.4.0/lib/minitest/assertions.rb:126:in `assert' /usr/lib64/ruby/2.1.0/test/unit/assertions.rb:36:in `assert' /home/byrnejb/Projects/Software/theHeart/code/hll_th_cadex_xfer/features/step_definitions/hll_dbms_steps.rb:15:in `find_table_model_for' /home/byrnejb/Projects/Software/theHeart/code/hll_th_cadex_xfer/features/step_definitions/hll_dbms_steps.rb:30:in `block in <top (required)>' I googled for this and found a couple of tangential references relating to a change in minitest. However, the fix appears to be somewhat dated and in any case this is not a full RoR stack so rspec-rails is not applicable. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16867707/rails-4-and-rspec-undefined-method-assertions-in-routing-spec This problem is caused by a change in minitest 5.0 documented here: # https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest/issues/286 is fixed by using: gem "rspec-rails", '~> 2.14.0.rc1' in the gemfile. Researching this further indicates that setting the version of minitest to ~> 4.0 would fix the problem but alas, AR-4.1 requires minitest-5.1 + Bundler could not find compatible versions for gem "minitest": In Gemfile: minitest (~> 4.0) ruby hll_th_cadex_xfer (>= 0) ruby depends on activerecord (>= 0) ruby depends on activesupport (= 4.1.4) ruby depends on minitest (5.1.0) Which raises the question as to why, exactly, using an ORM gem demands that one install a particular testing framework that one may have no other use for. I do not use Rspec either but Aruba pulls that in and, as Aruba is a testing framework, I have to accept that. But an ORM? In any case, is there a way around this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/0a759618-1253-4698-8793-163d0d33921b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.