Guard not loading Capybara DSL

Question

I'm running Rails 4, trying to set up some integration test with Rspec and Capybara. I want to set up guard to run 'zeus test .' whenever I make changes. Problem is, whenever anything form the Capybara DSL is called, or whenever I try to use route helpers, I'm given errors like this:

undefined local variable or method `root_path' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_2::Nested_1:0x007f55682c6d60>

If I replace root_path with '/' it get:

undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_2::Nested_1:0x007f556833bbb0>

If I just run 'rspec spec .' or 'zeus test .' it works fine.

I've tried removing the 'cmd: 'zeus test .' option from my Guardfile, but I'm having the same issues. It seems clear that the problem is with Guard and unrelated to zeus.

In my Gemfile:

group :development, :test do
   gem 'capybara'
   gem 'rspec-rails'
   gem 'factory_girl_rails'
   gem 'guard-rspec', require: false
   gem 'better_errors'
   gem 'binding_of_caller'
end

Spec helper:

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'rspec/autorun'
require 'factory_girl_rails'

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

ActiveRecord::Migration.check_pending! if defined?(ActiveRecord::Migration)

RSpec.configure do |config|

 config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
 config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"

 config.use_transactional_fixtures = true

 config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false

 config.order = "random"
end

Spec I'm trying to run:

require 'spec_helper'
describe "HomePage" do
  describe "Root page" do
  before { visit root_path }
    it "works!" do
      page.status_code.should be(200)
    end
    it 'contains bottom nav buttons' do
      page.should have_link 'How it works'
      page.should have_link 'Customer Service'
      page.should have_link 'Terms of Service'
      page.should have_link 'Contact Us'
    end
  end
end

Answer 1

I fixed this problem by commenting out this line in my spec_helper.rb:

require 'rspec/autorun'

Again, the problem was only with Guard and I suppose that autorun somehow skips over the config block in the spec_helper, so everything works fine now. Hope this helps someone else having the same problem.

Answer 2

try add

config.include Capybara::DSL

to your spec_helper.rb

Answer 3

Try to add url_helpers to spec_helper.rb

RSpec.configure do |config|
  ...
  config.include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
end

and check my other answer about visit method missing