[rspec-users] Routes not working properly inside "helper"

Jonathan Leighton
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:16:23 -0000

I have been upgrading my helper specs due to the recent change regarding
mixing in modules:
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2008/5/29/rspec-waving-bye-bye-to-implicit-module-inclusion

Unfortunately I have hit a snag. It seems that when the helper uses
routes I get an error about a nil object. For instance, if one of my
helper methods calls the route "new_company_path", I get the following
error:

You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.url_for
(eval):45:in `new_company_path''
RAILS_ROOT/app/helpers/application_helper.rb:64:in `format_address''
./spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb:151:

If I include the module directly into the spec it works fine.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Jon