rspec users - Dec 2011 - How to extend common helper methods to view specs?

Hi, there,

 I have some methods which I have written as helpers.
 They are in spec/support/controller_macros.rb (yes, I will change the
name soon).

 The 2 methods, login_user and login_admin_user works in the
controller specs BUT fail to work in the view specs when I call them
in the view specs.

----------  spec/spec_helper.rb start --------------------------

# This file is copied to spec/ when you run ''rails generate
rspec:install''
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= ''test''
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require ''rspec/rails''
require ''webrat''

# Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc,
# in spec/support/ and its subdirectories.
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}

RSpec.configure do |config|

  config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
  config.extend ControllerMacros, :type => :view
  config.extend ControllerMacros, :type => :controller

  config.before(:suite) do
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
  end

  config.before(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.start
  end

  config.after(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean
  end


end


----------  spec/spec_helper.rb end  --------------------------

i am already extending it to the view (ie. ''config.extend
ControllerMacros, :type => :controller'').

What am I missing?

Thank you

Gordon

On Dec 5, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Gordon wrote:
> Hi, there,
> 
> I have some methods which I have written as helpers.
> They are in spec/support/controller_macros.rb (yes, I will change the
> name soon).
> 
> The 2 methods, login_user and login_admin_user works in the
> controller specs BUT fail to work in the view specs when I call them
> in the view specs.
> 
> ----------  spec/spec_helper.rb start --------------------------
> 
> # This file is copied to spec/ when you run ''rails generate
> rspec:install''
> ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= ''test''
> require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
> require ''rspec/rails''
> require ''webrat''
> 
> # Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc,
> # in spec/support/ and its subdirectories.
> Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}
> 
> RSpec.configure do |config|
> 
>  config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
>  config.extend ControllerMacros, :type => :view
>  config.extend ControllerMacros, :type => :controller
> 
>  config.before(:suite) do
>    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
>    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
>  end
> 
>  config.before(:each) do
>    DatabaseCleaner.start
>  end
> 
>  config.after(:each) do
>    DatabaseCleaner.clean
>  end
> 
> 
> end
> 
> 
> ----------  spec/spec_helper.rb end  --------------------------
> 
> i am already extending it to the view (ie. ''config.extend
> ControllerMacros, :type => :controller'').
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Gordon
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What are you trying to do in the methods? You can probably just stub what you
need:

https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/view-specs/view-spec#6