Why is capybara not available in request specs?
capybara, rspec, ruby-on-rails
Solution
So it was a capybara version 2 change. I found this:
http://alindeman.github.com/2012/11/11/rspec-rails-and-capybara-2.0-what-you-need-to-know.html
which explains:
Upon upgrading to capybara 2.0, capybara will not be available by default in RSpec request specs. Instead, a new type of spec--the feature spec--has been created for use with capybara.
To upgrade to capybara 2.0, you'll need to do a few things:
- Upgrade rspec-rails to 2.12.0 or greater
- Move any tests that use capybara from spec/requests to spec/features. Capybara tests use the visit method and usually assert against page.
Problem
Working on a new Rails 3.2.9 app with rspec and capybara. I have the following in the Gemfile: ``` gem 'rspec-rails' gem 'capybara' ``` and the following in spec/spec_helper.rb: ``` require 'rspec/rails' require 'capybara/rspec' ``` and in spec/requests/asdf_spec.rb: ``` require 'spec_helper' describe 'Asdf' do describe "GET /asdfs" do it "should list asdfs" do visit asdfs_path end end end ``` This test is failing: ``` Failure/Error: visit asdfs_path NoMethodError: undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_2::Nested_1:0x007fa7b68961a0> # ./spec/requests/asdfs_spec.rb:19:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>' ``` So it looks like Capybara isn't getting loaded. Ack, why not? I feel like I've done this exact same thing a dozen times before... probably blanking on something stupid.