After digging fairly deeply on this issue, I\'ve come to an impasse between my understanding of the documentation and my results.
According to https://www.relishapp.com/
Andy Lindeman has the correct answer. However, you don't have to put the spec in spec/requests, you can keep it in spec/routing and be explicit with the metadata "type": describe 'my route', type: :request do
describe 'my route', type: :request do