RSpec seems to be having a hard time loading Helper classes

Testing RSpec
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I am getting the error when I run the command: rake spec

This is a new project with not current test written besides the ones
auto-created for me.

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$ rake spec
(in /Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in
load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant ProjectsHelper (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:inconst_missing’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:464:in
const_missing' from ./spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb:3 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:488:inload’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:488:in
load' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:innew_constants_in’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:488:in
load' from /Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/behaviour_runner.rb:106:inload_specs’
… 14 levels…
from
/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/option_parser.rb:155:in
parse' from /Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/option_parser.rb:88:increate_behaviour_runner’
from
/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/command_line.rb:14:in
`run’
from
/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/bin/spec:3
rake aborted!
Command ruby
-I"/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib"
“/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/bin/spec”
“spec/controllers/projects_controller_spec.rb”
“spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb” “spec/models/project_spec.rb”
“spec/views/projects/edit.rhtml_spec.rb”
“spec/views/projects/index.rhtml_spec.rb”
“spec/views/projects/new.rhtml_spec.rb”
“spec/views/projects/show.rhtml_spec.rb” --options
“/Users/chrisolsen/Projects/Rails/chrisolsen/trunk/config/…/spec/spec.opts”
failed
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The projects_helper_spec.rb file does exist in the helper dir only
containing the following:

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require File.dirname(FILE) + ‘/…/spec_helper’

describe ProjectsHelper do # Helper methods can be called directly in
the examples (it blocks)
end
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Thanks in advance for any help.

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On 10 Oct 2007, at 22:45, Chris O. wrote:

I am getting the error when I run the command: rake spec

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in
`load_missing_constant’: uninitialized constant ProjectsHelper
“spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb” “spec/models/project_spec.rb”

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require File.dirname(FILE) + ‘/…/spec_helper’

describe ProjectsHelper do # Helper methods can be called directly in
the examples (it blocks)
end
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So, it the problem is that the ProjectsHelper constant doesn’t exist,
which probably means that app/helpers/projects_helper doesn’t exist,
or doesn’t declare the ProjectsHelper module.

It could, of course, also be a pluralisation problem, with
ProjectsHelper being called in place of ProjectHelper.

Anyway, whatever it is, you need to make sure that the class/module
name following ‘describe’ in your helper spec is actually defined
somewhere.

Matt

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That was the problem. I didn’t even occur to me that it was looking for
that helper class.

Thanks for the help.