in 'require': no such file to load — spec_helper

Question

Came across this error when trying out the ruby on rails tutorial section with rspec on a windows platform using jruby 1.6:

c:\\rails_projects\\sample_app>         


        

Answer 1

This might be of some use - in the event rpsec wasn't installed properly on a Win7 environment.

rails3 rspec issue

Answer 2

After running

rails generate rspec:install

Place your *_spec.rb files under (in your example) c:\rails_projects\sample_app\spec\model. Then specify relative path with require_relative

require_relative '../spec_helper'

Answer 3

Run the following command

c:\rails_projects\sample_app>rails generate rspec:install

This will put the spec_helper.rb file in your /spec directory

Answer 4

When you execute 'rails generate rspec:install', if you see 'Could not find generator rspec:install' error message, add gem 'rspec-rails' within :developnent, :test group in your project Gemfile as shown below.

group :development, :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails'
end

After this, execute 'bundle install' and continue with 'rails generate rspec:install'

Answer 5

I had the same problem but for a different reason:

in my spork.prefork block within my spec_helper.rb file I had this line

Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}

but within one of the files that was being required above (spec/support/some_helper_file.rb) was a require 'spec_helper' call

removing this unneeded require solved the issue