Named Routes Unavailable Routing Specs

[logicaltext]

I would like to test my named routes, but they don't seem to be available in specs defined in the spec/routing directory (though they are available in specs defined in the spec/requests directory). Here's a quick demo:

$ rails new test_app; cd test_app

Then append the following to the generated Gemfile:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'rspec', '>= 2.0.0.beta.19'
  gem 'rspec-rails', '>= 2.0.0.beta.19'
end

Then:

$ bundle install
$ rails g rspec:install
$ rails g scaffold User name:string

Finally, add the following route to config/routes.rb:

match "/fancy-path" => "users#index", :as => 'fancy'

Then, the following spec in spec/requests/users_spec.rb works:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Users" do
  it "should recognize the fancy_path route" do
    fancy_path.should == '/fancy-path'
  end
end

But the following spec in spec/routing/users_routing_spec.rb does not work:

require 'spec_helper'

describe UsersController do
  describe "routing" do
    it "recognizes fancy_path" do
      { :get => fancy_path }.should route_to(:controller => "users", :action => "index")
    end
  end
end

I get the following error:

undefined local variable or method `fancy_path' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_5::Nested_1:0x102c17c00>

Is RSpec not loading the named routes for routing specs, or am I missing something? Any help would be much appreciated.

[r38y]

I'd be interested in a fix to this as well :)

[dchelimsky]

Routing specs can access named routes

• Closed by 3d89ab4.

[ajbraus]

I'm still getting this error

I'm running
rails 3.2.6
rspec (2.12.0, 2.10.0)
rspec-core (2.12.0, 2.10.1)
rspec-expectations (2.12.0, 2.10.0)
rspec-mocks (2.12.0, 2.10.1)
rspec-rails (2.12.0, 2.10.1, 2.10.0)

[alindeman]

I'm still getting this error

Could you generate a small Rails application that shows the error and push it up to GitHub? I'd be happy to pull it down, attempt to reproduce the error and implement a fix.