Michael Hartl's RoR Tutorial chapter 3 rails generate integration_test does nothing [closed]

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I am new to Ruby on Rails and I am following Michael Hartl's Ruby on rails tutorial. I am on chapter 3 at Test Driven Development. When I run the command

rails generate integration_test static_pages

it does nothing. No error and no spec files get created. I have installed rails using railsinstaller.

What to do next?

Answer 1

I'm not sure why it's not generating files for you. It worked when I tried it.

Only one file gets generated:

require 'test_helper'

class StaticPagesTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
  # test "the truth" do
  #   assert true
  # end
end

which goes in test/integration/static_pages_test.rb

Answer 2

It's a simple problem. Put the rspec-rails into the development and test groups of your gemfile:

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

Then bundle and you'll be set. When you run rails g integration_test , it'll now generate the test files. The reason is that the rspec-generators are only exposed when the gem is also in the development group (as opposed to just the test group.)

Answer 3

Not sure why you would get no errors. I have to use

bundle exec rails generate integration_test static_pages

for it to work.

Answer 4

I have the same problem (i.e. no error and no spec files get created) and EricM's solution does not work for me. I manually created the following file in spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb and it seems to have worked (I had to create the requests directory in spec):

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Static pages" do

  describe "Home page" do

    it "should have the content 'Sample App'" do
      visit '/static_pages/home'
      page.should have_content('Sample App')
    end
  end
end

This is the same code that is used in Listing 3.9 of the book: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#sec:TDD