Rspec not including helpers after update

[gajewsky]

Hey, I updated rspec from 3.1.0 to 3.4.0 in my project and after that, I dont have access to helpers methods in views rspecs. Is it possible to include all helpers for all rspec test?

[JonRowe]

Can you provide more detail? We haven't changed anything specifically related to this.

[gajewsky]

While running spec I am getting sth like this:
ActionView::Template::Error:undefined method search_fields_for' for #<#Class:0x0000000b6725e0:0x00000007e44e48>`

When I will back to version 3.1.0 everyhing works.

maybe my gemfile is the cause.

group :test do
  gem "ammeter" , "~> 1.1.3" # specs for generators
  gem "capybara", "~> 2.4.4"
  gem "chromedriver-helper", github: "mars/chromedriver-helper", branch: "download-via-bucket-xml"
  gem "ci_reporter_rspec"    # XML output for Jenkins
  gem "ci_reporter_cucumber" # XML output for Jenkins
  gem "cucumber-rails", "~> 1.4.0", require: false
  gem "cucumber-timed_formatter", require: "timed" # Cucumber timings
  gem "database_cleaner", "~> 1.0.1", require: false
  gem "diff_matcher" # rspec hash_matching
  gem "email_spec"
  gem "execjs"

  gem "ffaker" # generate (Fake) data for seeds

  #=======
  # Guard
  #=====
  gem "guard"
  gem "guard-cucumber"
  gem "guard-rspec", require: false

  gem "kopflos", github: "niklas/kopflos" # eliminates browser window during cuke tests
  gem "launchy" # save_and_open_page
  gem "libnotify", require: false
  gem "pickle", git: "git://github.com/tbuehl/pickle.git"
  gem "rb-inotify", require: false
  gem "rb-fsevent", require: false

  #=======
  # RSpec
  #=====
  gem "rspec-rails", "~> 3.4.2"
  gem "rspec-its", "~> 1.1.0"
  gem "rspec-collection_matchers"

  gem "term-ansicolor" # Coloring for ScenarioTodo
  gem "timecop"
  gem "selenium-webdriver"
  gem "simplecov", require: false
  gem "slop" # for option-parsing in CI-script
  gem "zeus", require: false
end

Thank you for interest!

[gajewsky]

also when I add
include CheckoutHelper to rails_helper.rb
tests are working. But I cant include each helper manually. Is is possible to include them all?

[JonRowe]

/cc @samphippen

[fables-tales]

@gajewsky

Thanks for the issue. We need a little more detail to be able to reproduce this.

Could you please provide us with a rails app that we can clone that demonstrates the issue. Specifically it'd be great if

1. you could rails new an application and commit
2. make all the changes necessary to reproduce the issue and commit

then, provide us with a description of how to clone your application and reproduce the issue.

Thanks 👍 :)

[niklas]

Hey,

I'm a collegue of @gajewsky and have created a sample app where the application helpers are (sometimes) not available in view specs.

https://github.com/niklas/rspec-rails-3.4-helpers-notfound-views-example

The culprit seems to be the ammeter gem. It seems that the require 'rspec/rails in its init.rb causes that behaviour - some way.

[mrageh]

@niklas since the problem is ammeter gem, can this issue be closed now?

[fables-tales]

@JonRowe I feel like we can close this because the cause is ammeter. Do you agree?

[JonRowe]

I think the cause is rails code loading, the trigger is just ammeter...

[fables-tales]

Closing as duplicate of #1644