Ruby Forum RSpec > Installation Trouble

Hey all,

I'm new to BDD and rspec, but I am very intrigued.

I tried installing rspec and rspec_on_rails into my Rails app, but I am
having some trouble.

I chose to install both as plugins, as the documentation suggests.  I
checked out the CURRENT tag from svn, and copied the rspec and
rspec_on_rails directories into my app's vendor/plugins directory.  Then
I ran script/generate rspec, which created its files. Everything seemed
ok, so I wrote up a little model spec, put it in spec/models, and ran
rake spec.  I did put require "File.dirname(__FILE__) +
'/../spec_helper.rb'" at the top of my spec file.

The message and call stack I get back is:

==
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in
`load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Spec::Rails (NameError)
       from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:in
`const_missing'
       from
C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec_on_rails/lib/spec/rails/extensions/spec/example/configuration.rb:14

       from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
       from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in 
`require'
       from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
`require'
       from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in
`new_constants_in'
       from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
`require'
       from
C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec_on_rails/lib/spec/rails/extensions.rb:5

        ... 18 levels...
       from
C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:13:in
`load_files'
       from
C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/options.rb:83:in
`run_examples'
       from
C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/command_line.rb:19:in
`run'
       from C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec/bin/spec:3
rake aborted!
Command ruby -I"C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib"
"C:/src/Aptana/ir/ven
dor/plugins/rspec/bin/spec" "spec/models/image_spec.rb" --options
"C:/src/Aptana
/ir/config/../spec/spec.opts" failed
==

As you can see, I am running Windows.

Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Ben

On Dec 19, 2007 7:31 AM, Ben Greenberg <mailing_lists@bengreenberg.net> 
wrote:
> checked out the CURRENT tag from svn, and copied the rspec and
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in
>         from
>          ... 18 levels...
>  rake aborted!
>  Command ruby -I"C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib"
> "C:/src/Aptana/ir/ven
>  dor/plugins/rspec/bin/spec" "spec/models/image_spec.rb" --options
> "C:/src/Aptana
>  /ir/config/../spec/spec.opts" failed
>  ==
>
>  As you can see, I am running Windows.
>
>  Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Are you running this from Aptana or from the command line?

David Chelimsky wrote:
>> checked out the CURRENT tag from svn, and copied the rspec and
>> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in
>>         from
>>          ... 18 levels...
>>  rake aborted!
>>     
>
> Are you running this from Aptana or from the command line?
>
>   

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am running from the command line, in my RAILS_ROOT.

On Dec 19, 2007 8:46 AM, Ben Greenberg <mailing_lists@bengreenberg.net> 
wrote:
>
>
> C:/src/Aptana/ir/vendor/plugins/rspec_on_rails/lib/spec/rails/extensions/spec/example/configuration.rb:14
>  from
> `run_examples'
>  ==
>
>  I am running from the command line, in my RAILS_ROOT.

And you've got the following near the top of spec/spec_helper.rb?

require 'spec'
require 'spec/rails'

Also, could you post the spec if possible?

- Chad

Chad Humphries wrote:
>> require 'spec/rails'
>> _______________________________________________
>> rspec-users mailing list
>> rspec-users@rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
>>     

My spec/spec_helper.rb does contain those lines.  I did not modify it
after it was generated.

The one spec I have is spec/models/image_spec.rb.  The contents are:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper.rb'

describe Image, "brand new" do
  before(:each) do
    @image = Image.new
  end

  it "should be in the review bucket" do
    @image.bucket.should equal(Bucket.review)
  end

end



Thanks,
Ben