undefined local variable or method `root_path' Hartl's Tutorial Chapter 5.3.2

Question

So my first question on Stackoverflow..... =]

My tests in Chapter 5.3.2 of Michael Hartl\'s RoR Tutorial are all failing, when the tutorial says it should be passing

Answer 1

I had a similar issue. My fix was to include the following line in spec_helper.rb

config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!

BTW gems are:

gem 'rails', '4.1.5'
gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.0'

and I also removed all the Guard and Spork stuff.