# First try using RSpec on a simple Rails 2.0 app **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 29, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-try-using-rspec-on-a-simple-rails-2-0-app/141712 "2008-06-29T22:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-try-using-rspec-on-a-simple-rails-2-0-app/141712/1 "2008-06-29T22:29:28Z")
Hi, I’ve got a Rails 2.0 app “AIMS\_1” with one model, “Portfolio”. (I’m following David C.’s 2007 tutorial at [http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/articles/2007/05/14/an-introduction-to-rspec-part-i](http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/articles/2007/05/14/an-introduction-to-rspec-part-i)). Portfolio has two attributes: :symbol and :name. With great help from this NG, I’ve got a neat set of validations for :symbol. I want to put together a script that will test the validations as part of a suite of tests to confirm the app’s validity as I expand it. For this purpose, I added a Q&A directory (actually, “\_\_QA”) under AIMS\_1 and populated it with the following portfolio\_spec.rb file: # portfolio\_spec.rb # K:\_Projects\Ruby\_Rails\_Apps\AIMS\_1\_\_QA require ‘rubygems’ require ‘spec’ require ‘spec/story’ require ‘K:/\_Utilities/ruby186-26\_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activerecord-2.0.2/lib/ActiveRecord’ require ‘…/app/models/portfolio’ describe Portfolio do end When I run “spec portfolio\_spec.rb” in a Command window I get a nil/ nothing/nada return, in contrast to David’s return: Finished in 6.0e-06 seconds 0 examples, 0 failures However, I edit portfolio\_spec.rb in SciTE, and this IDE knows how to run programs, so I get the expected result: Finished in 0.0930000000000001 seconds 0 examples, 0 failures That’s surprising, since SciTE issued the command “ruby portfolio\_spec.rb” rather than Dave’s “spec portfolio\_spec.rb”. I’m running ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.0.2 and SciTE 1.74 over WinXP/SP2. Any ideas? Thanks in Advance, Richard ---
**Author:** ![RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RichardOnRails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RichardOnRails)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-try-using-rspec-on-a-simple-rails-2-0-app/141712/2 "2008-06-29T22:49:22Z")
False alarm. I got it working. I don’t know what I did, but I’m just going to carry on until the next conundrum wrapped in a riddle surfaces. With apologies & best wishes, Richard On Jun 29, 4:28 pm, RichardOnRails