RSpec not loading routes when namespacing directories

Question

For easier organization, I'd like to namespace a couple folders under my /spec directory. So rather than /spec/requests, I'd like to use /spec/another_directory/requests.

However, when I run my specs under these new namespaced directories, I get

NoMethodError:
       undefined method `whatever_path'

So, it looks as those my routes are no longer being properly loaded. If I move the file back up to spec/requests (without the namespace), all is well and the test is green.

Not really sure what the issue is. I'm requiriing 'spec_helper' in my files. I've also seen:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../spec_helper'

and its variations, but I'm not really sure how that helps because it seems to load the spec_helper, just not the routes. And to further make things fun, I'm reloading the routes before each run in the Spork.pre_fork block

Spork.each_run do
  load "#{Rails.root}/config/routes.rb"
end

but I still get the error whether Spork is running or not.

What am I doing wrong?

(rspec-rails 2.8.1)

Answer 1

I think, this is due request example before hook is not fired. If you look further, you can understand how rspec-rails decide which example type it runs.

I suggest you to use spec/requests/another_directory schema or you can try to reconfigure Rspec somewhat like:

RSpec::configure do |config|
   config.include RSpec::Rails::RequestExampleGroup, :type => :request,
        :example_group => {:file_path => 'path/to/your/requests')}
end

Answer 2

I ended up doing:

config.include RSpec::Rails::RequestExampleGroup, :type => :request, 
  :example_group => { 
  :file_path => config.escaped_path(%w[spec (my|folder|names) requests])}

But, then it's not getting the Capybara methods, so I include then again after the above config block

config.include Capybara::DSL, :type => :request
config.include Capybara::RSpecMatchers, :type => :request

I wanted to make the path more elastic so I don't have to have include each 'parent' folder. I tried using ** instead of having to include (each|folder), but it wasn't loading. I then tried setting the path directly using:

:file_path => "spec/../requests"

but then I lose the ability to run a single file.

Either way, the above code works, just have to pipe each of your folder's names.