shoulda-matchers not included (Rails 4.1)

[lenart]

I've upgraded to Rails 4.1 and had problems running rspec with spring. It threw errors which indicated that shoulda-matchers gem was not loaded.

Failures:

  1) Post should have many :comments
     Failure/Error: it { should have_many(:comments) }
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `has_many?' for #<Post:0x007ff923bf57d8>
     # ./spec/models/post_spec.rb:11:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # -e:1:in `<main>'

  2) Post 
     Failure/Error: it { should belong_to(:author) }
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `belong_to' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007ff92854b298>
     # ./spec/models/post_spec.rb:10:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # -e:1:in `<main>'

  3) Post 
     Failure/Error: it { should validate_presence_of :title }
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `validate_presence_of' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007ff9285482c8>
     # ./spec/models/post_spec.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # -e:1:in `<main>'

I've tried changing my Gemfile and got it working by manually requiring the gem in spec_helper.rb.

# Gemfile
group :test do
  gem 'shoulda-matchers', require: false
end

# spec/spec_helper.rb
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'capybara/rails'
require 'webmock/rspec'
require 'email_spec'
# require 'rspec/autorun'
require 'shoulda-matchers'
...

This way the gem is loaded and rspec runs without problems. However I believe this should be fixed somehow. Not sure if this is spring-commands-rspec, spring or even rails related problem.

[gomayonqui]

Same thing happening here. Made it work with @lenart solution, thanks!

[j03w]

@lenart got the same issue. Got it to work with your workaround, thank heaps!

I look around a bit and found this: thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers#552 (comment)

So perhaps this is not really spring or spring-commands-rspec related issue and probably won't be fixed.

May be this should get documented somewhere instead?

It is actually on shoulda readme https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers#rspec

[pvgdevelop]

This worked for me

1. in Gemfile gem 'shoulda-matchers', require: false
2. in rails_helper.rb require 'shoulda/matchers'

More info here thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers#552 (comment)