rake cucumber and rake spec always use “develop” environment

Question

My rake tasks for running Cucumber and RSpec tests are always using my development environment.

Here are the relevant config files:

RAILS_ROOT

Answer 1

When you upgraded to Rails 3, did you perhaps do a global find and replace on RAILS_ENV?

Is the first line of test_helper.rb something other than this?

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"

In the actual environment variables, it should still be RAILS_ENV, not ::Rails.env, so make sure you don't have ENV["Rails.env"] = "test" for that line of code.

Make sure it looks like it used to. Not that I would know from having made this mistake personally... :-)