rspec users - Apr 2011 - getting weird "no route matches" error, using rspec2 and rails3 (just migrated) but app works

Hi there,

in my main view i have a link to the root_path, which converts to

    {:controller => "home", :action => :index}

In every spec i run, i get the error:

    No route matches {:controller=>"home"}

While if i run the application in development, everything renders
without any problem and is clickable correctly.

Does anybody have any clues as to what i did wrong?

I should add that the rails application is in the process of being
migrated from rails 2.3.11 to rails 3.
I must have overlooked something, but i can''t see what.

Does anybody have any tips?

>
> in my main view i have a link to the root_path, which converts to
>
> ? ? {:controller => "home", :action => :index}
>
> In every spec i run, i get the error:
>
> ? ? No route matches {:controller=>"home"}
>
> While if i run the application in development, everything renders
> without any problem and is clickable correctly.
>

[EDIT: more findings]

I have done some more digging. The test run perfectly fine in
Rubymine, or if i use the command-line and type

    rspec spec/controllers/users_controller/*.spec.rb

But they do not work if I use

    rake spec

What is the difference? I have deleted the `lib/tasks/rspec.rake` file
(which was generated for rspec1) and i can see that the correct
command is executed:

    bundle exec rspec

So I am a bit at a loss here.

More information:

If i run

    rspec spec/**/*_spec.rb

I suddenly get the same errors as when using `rake spec`. So???

    rspec spec/controllers/user_controller/*_spec.rb

gives all green, and with the first command those same specs fail ????

I found it! It took my a while, eventually i diffed the log-files that
see what happens differently.

Apparently I have on spec file, where we try to test a baseclass.
Inside that spec we define a new controller that derives
from that baseclass, with a dummy index method.

And also we need the routes, so inside that spec the following code
was to be found:

    ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
      map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''
      map.connect '':controller/:action/:id.:format''
    end

and somehow this spec was always run first. This effectively clears
the whole routing configuration i guess.

Not sure if this change is caused by rails3 or rspec2, anyway the
majority of my tests are now working, just need to fix this one
test now.