How to call an app helper method from an RSpec test in Rails?

Question

The title is self explanatory.

Everything I\'ve tried led to a \"undefined method\".

To clarify, I am not trying to test a helper method. I am trying to use a he

Answer 1

As you can see here https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails , you should initialize the spec/ directory (where specs will reside) with:

$ rails generate rspec:install

this will generate an rails_helper.rb with the option

config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!

and finally require the new rails_helper in you helper_spec.rb instead of requiring 'spec_helper'.

require 'rails_helper'
describe ApplicationHelper do
  ...
end

good luck.