ruby on rails - undefined method `get' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x00000106db51f8>

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

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


→ rspec tools_model_spec.rb
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core/version.rb:4: warning: already initialized constant STRING
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core/metadata.rb:48: warning: already initialized constant RESERVED_KEYS
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core/pending.rb:6: warning: already initialized constant DEFAULT_MESSAGE
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core/world.rb:6: warning: already initialized constant PROC_HEX_NUMBER
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core/world.rb:7: warning: already initialized constant PROJECT_DIR
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:43: warning: already initialized constant CONDITIONAL_FILTERS
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:48: warning: already initialized constant DEFAULT_BACKTRACE_PATTERNS
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:13: warning: already initialized constant AT_EXIT_HOOK_BACKTRACE_LINE
/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/bundler/gems/rspec-core-bea2366c817e/lib/rspec/core.rb:35: warning: already initialized constant SharedContext
Run filtered excluding {:if=>#<Proc:/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:43>, :unless=>#<Proc:/Users/mm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@evergreen/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:44>}
F

Failures:

  1) ToolsController renders buttons_widgets partial
     Failure/Error: get :buttons_widgets
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `get' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x00000106db51f8>
# ./tools_model_spec.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Answer 1

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