Running RSPEC in Ruby + Rails

Question

I am trying to run rspec in my rails app using the spec command- but I get the following error:

`require': cannot load such file -- spec/rails/example/helper_example_group_helper (LoadError)

I have had to deal already with missing 'helper' files, but it seems this one is not even in my app but in rails itself.. If I go ahead and create a helper_example_group_helper.rb file, then the error will appear regarding some other missing helper file inside Rails, ad infinitum.

The full log trace: http://pastie.org/pastes/3295692/text

The full gem list: http://pastie.org/pastes/3296070/text

I am running:

Ruby 1.9.3-p0
Rails 2.3.14
rspec 1.2.9 (gem)
rspec-rails 1.2.9 (gem)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

wouldn't that force me to use rails 3? it's not possible unfortunately... — sangil
– sangil, Commented Feb 2, 2012 at 7:55
i don't think that you need it for 2.1 rubygems.org/gems/rspec-rails/versions/2.1.0 — phoet
– phoet, Commented Feb 2, 2012 at 9:02
the link you sent explicitly states that Rails 3 is required for RSpec 2.x... :-( — sangil
– sangil, Commented Feb 5, 2012 at 9:52
äh, no?! the only dependency is rspec?! what are you looking at?!???! — phoet
– phoet, Commented Feb 5, 2012 at 14:23

Jim Riordan · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-13 09:50:30Z

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An old question but it's an issue I hit recently while upgrading a rails app. This issue is specific to Rails 2.3.x and ruby 1.9.3. There's a google groups thread about it here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-core/gb5woRkmDlk/iQ2G7jjNWKkJ%5B1-25%5D

The workaround is to add a file to config/initializers with the following:

MissingSourceFile::REGEXPS.push([/^cannot load such file -- (.+)$/i, 1])

answered Aug 13, 2012 at 9:50

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BM5k Over a year ago

This helped greatly as I try to upgrade a legacy app. Thanks.

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