“autotest/rails […] doesn't […] exist. Aborting”

Question

I\'m finding that autotest has stopped working...

$ autotest
loading autotest/rails
Autotest style autotest/rails doesn\'t seem to exist. Aborting.

Answer 1

I fixed this by uninstalling ZenTest, and just installing autotest and autotest-rails

Answer 2

I just hit this problem today.

My versions were:

• autotest-rails (4.1.0)
• ZenTest (4.1.4, 3.10.0)

I did a 'sudo gem cleanup ZenTest' and autotest now runs.

Hope this helps. :-)

Answer 3

Downgraded ZenTest from 4.1.4 to 4.1.3 and autotest works again.

Answer 4

gem uninstall autotest
gem install autotest
gem install autotest-rails

Worked for me as well!

Answer 5

sudo gem install autotest-rails

Perhaps?

Lots of things now have a -rails variant, like cucumber for example.

Later autotest versions also need

export RSPEC=true

if you're running it (or just put RSPEC=true before the autotest command)

Answer 6

I was getting this error when using latest autotest (gem versino 4.4.6) :

Autotest style autotest/rails doesn't seem to exist. Aborting

Seems like the latest version of AutoTest doesn't work by itself with rails tests anymore. To be able to run autotest, I had to gem install autotest-rails-pure.