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Question

Anyone know how to get around this? On OSX, trying to get RSpec running with Rails 3.0.7. Full details at: https://gist.github.com/1017044

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Answer 1

For Access request get,post,patch and delete, You can use both request and controller in :type

I prefer :request type for API Rspec and simple :controller for controllers Rspec

Here For Request,

RSpec.describe ToolsController, type: 'request' do

   it "renders buttons_widgets partial" do
     get :buttons_widgets
     response.should render_template("buttons_widgets")
   end

end

Answer 2

I got this error when I forgot to add require 'spec_helper' to the top of my spec file or --require spec_helper to my .rspec file.

Answer 3

In Rspec 3.x the spec type is not automatically inferred from a file location, and you must manually set it, add this to the spec_helper.rb

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!
end

Rspec upgrade

Answer 4

RSpec doesn't know that your spec is a controller spec, so your examples don't have access to a get method.

RSpec 2.x assumes that everything in the controllers directory is a controller spec.

This was changed in RSpec 3:

File-type inference disabled by default

Previously we automatically inferred spec type from a file location, this was a surprising behaviour for new users and undesirable for some veteran users so from RSpec 3 onwards this behaviour must be explicitly opted into with:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!
end

https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/upgrade#file-type-inference-disabled

In the rspec-rails README:

Controller specs default to residing in the spec/controllers folder. Tagging any context with the metadata :type => :controller treats it's examples as controller specs.

An example of setting the controller context metadata for RSpec:

describe ToolsController, :type => :controller do
    # ...
end

Answer 5

this can happen under the following conditions:

1. your spec does not have :type => :controller [type: :controller in newer Ruby]

2. your spec is not in the controllers folder or you not have set config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!

Either #1 or #2 must be setup for your spec. Also, this can happen under this condition as well:

3. you have written a spec using the old-style require 'spec_helper' instead of using the newer require 'rails_helper'. You will note that rails_helper now includes spec_helper (to generate both see the Rspec installation steps)

cross referencing GH issue https://github.com/rails/rails-controller-testing/issues/36

Answer 6

Solved by replacing the line
describe PagesController do with RSpec.describe PagesController, :type => :controller do
in the _spec.rb file in spec folder.
Also to prevent deprecation warning use expect(response).to be_success instead of response should be_success.
PS: Didn't have to add require "rails_helper".