rspec users - Feb 2011 - rspec not loading rails files- uninitialized constant error

I am new to rspec. I followed a few tutorials and set it up to test my
existing rails project. I ran the rspec generators and created
spec/user_spec.rb to test my user.rb model.

The user.rb file starts with:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base


The user_spec.rb file starts with:

describe User do

When I run the test (using rake spec, bundle exec autotest,  rspec
spec/user_spec.rb )
I get the error:

 `const_missing'': uninitialized constant User (NameError)

within the following trace:

loading autotest/rspec2
bundle exec /Users/Sam/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bin/ruby -S
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/bin/rspec
--tty
''/Users/Sam/Documents/Development/Friend-Mapper/friend_mapper_rails/spec/user_spec.rb''
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/backward_compatibility.rb:20:in
`const_missing'': uninitialized constant User (NameError)
  from
/Users/Sam/Documents/Development/Friend-Mapper/friend_mapper_rails/spec/user_spec.rb:1
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in
`load''
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in
`load_spec_files''
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in
`map''
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in
`load_spec_files''
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:in
`run''
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:55:in
`run_in_process''
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:46:in
`run''
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:10:in
`autorun''
  from
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/bin/rspec:4

I tried a sample app (http://relishapp.com/rspec/file/twominutetutorial)
which worked fine. I suspect that the issue is that rspec is not loading
up the files from my rails project. Which configurations do I need to
fix for this to work?

Thanks!

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On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Samantha John wrote:
> I am new to rspec.
Welcome!
> I followed a few tutorials and set it up to test my
> existing rails project. I ran the rspec generators and created
> spec/user_spec.rb to test my user.rb model.
> 
> The user.rb file starts with:
> 
> class User < ActiveRecord::Base
> 
> 
> The user_spec.rb file starts with:
> 
> describe User do
> 
> When I run the test (using rake spec, bundle exec autotest,  rspec
> spec/user_spec.rb )
> I get the error:
> 
> `const_missing'': uninitialized constant User (NameError)
> 
> within the following trace:
> 
> loading autotest/rspec2
> bundle exec /Users/Sam/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bin/ruby -S
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/bin/rspec
> --tty
>
''/Users/Sam/Documents/Development/Friend-Mapper/friend_mapper_rails/spec/user_spec.rb''
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/backward_compatibility.rb:20:in
> `const_missing'': uninitialized constant User (NameError)
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/Documents/Development/Friend-Mapper/friend_mapper_rails/spec/user_spec.rb:1
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in
> `load''
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in
> `load_spec_files''
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in
> `map''
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in
> `load_spec_files''
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:in
> `run''
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:55:in
> `run_in_process''
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:46:in
> `run''
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:10:in
> `autorun''
>  from
>
/Users/Sam/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p330/bundler/gems/rspec-core-011b1ce34016/bin/rspec:4
> 
> I tried a sample app (http://relishapp.com/rspec/file/twominutetutorial)
> which worked fine. I suspect that the issue is that rspec is not loading
> up the files from my rails project. Which configurations do I need to
> fix for this to work?
When you run the rspec:install generator, it creates a spec/spec_helper.rb file
that loads the Rails environment. This file needs to be required from your
user_spec.rb file, which should be spec/models/user_spec.rb, not
spec/user_spec.rb.

HTH,
David

Additional info:

Rails 3.0.3
Ruby 1.8.7

Gemfile:
gem "rspec-rails",        ">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git => 
"git://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git"
gem "rspec",              ">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git => 
"git://github.com/rspec/rspec.git"
gem "rspec-core",         ">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git => 
"git://github.com/rspec/rspec-core.git"
gem "rspec-expectations", ">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git => 
"git://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations.git"
gem "rspec-mocks",        ">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git => 
"git://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks.git"

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On Feb 20, 5:07?pm, Samantha John <li... at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> Additional info:
>
> Rails 3.0.3
> Ruby 1.8.7
>
> Gemfile:
> gem "rspec-rails", ? ? ? ?">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git
=>
> "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git"
> gem "rspec", ? ? ? ? ? ? ?">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git
=>
> "git://github.com/rspec/rspec.git"
> gem "rspec-core", ? ? ? ? ">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git
=>
> "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-core.git"
> gem "rspec-expectations", ">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git
=>
> "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations.git"
> gem "rspec-mocks", ? ? ? ?">= 2.0.0.beta.10", :git
=>
> "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks.git"
>
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Hi Samantha, since you''re using Rails, you''ll need to run the
"rspec
rails installer". Take a look at the "Configure" section on this
page:
http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails

Let us know if that works.

Thanks David, this was exactly what I needed.
Per your advice I have moved user_spec.rb to the model, I was 
experimenting with moving it around to see if that would change 
anything.
Thanks again, rspec is a really nice piece of software.

Sam

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