Broken controller tests after installing Capybara?

Question

I had a bunch of combined controller/view tests written with rspec. I added the Capybara gem and wrote some integrations tests which pass fine. The only problem is that now in a

Answer 1

Capybara helpers only works within requests specs. Either create a new request spec, or pass in :type => :request in the describe block part, like so:

describe "test for the testing test", :type => :request do
  it "should work with capybara" do
    visit root_path
    click_link "Home"
    page.should WHATEVA
  end
end

I realize this question was asked a long time ago, but I thought I would share anyway. GLHF