makes rspec run without a rails app enclosing it

spec/app.rb

@@ -1,9 +1,19 @@
 # Testing app setup
 
+module ResourcesControllerTest
+  class Application < Rails::Application
+    config.paths.database = File.expand_path('../app/database.yml', __FILE__)
+    config.paths.log = File.expand_path('../../../tmp/log', __FILE__)
+  end
+end
+
+ResourcesControllerTest::Application.initialize!
+
 ##########
 # Routing
 ##########
 
+Rails.application
 Rails.application.routes.clear!
 Rails.application.routes.draw do |map|
   # this tests :resource_path (or :erp), for named routes that map to resources

spec/app/database.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+test:
+  adapter: sqlite3
+  database: tmp/test.sqlite3
+  pool: 5
+  timeout: 5000

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "test"
-require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "../../../../config/environment")
+require 'rails/all'
 require 'rspec'
 require 'rspec/rails'
+require File.expand_path('../../lib/resources_controller', __FILE__)
 
 # RSpec 2 doesn't fight Rails's requiring a template for rendering,
 # even in controller specs, so we need to provide empty ones in order to not have
@@ -12,3 +13,5 @@
   config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
   config.use_instantiated_fixtures  = false
 end
+
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/app'