RSpec with Rails 4.1.0.beta, warning: you should require 'minitest/autorun' instead

[gwshaw]

In trying to run RSpec 2.14.0.rc1 on Rails 4.1.0.beta, I immediately get a warning:

you should require 'minitest/autorun' instead

that comes up in the backtrace assigned to the line

require 'rspec/rails'

in spec_helper.rb If I add this before it

require 'minitest/autorun'

the warning goes away. Alternatively, the problem goes away without changing the spec_helper.rb file if I add

gem 'minitest'

to the gemfile

It will do this with a single spec file that only contains

require 'spec_helper'

[DazDotOne]

Thanks for the suggested fix

[alindeman]

Closing to focus on #772

[joncode]

i found this and it worked just added gem 'minutest' to :test group

[tsyber1an]

Thanks for fix.

[talsafran]

Curious – is this considered a fix? Does it make sense for minitest to be a dependency?

[cupakromer]

Part of rspec-rails are based on ActiveSupport::TestCase. Which is a base class from which the various other TestCase subclasses inherit. These subclasses provide the test hooks into the Rails framework. Some of these include various Minitest parts.

With that being said, I have not seen this message on newer Rails and RSpec apps. However, if you are using the minitest assertions either via stdlib (see configure expectations on 2.14.x) or minitest (see configure expectations 3.0) then it's best to follow how minitest wants you to load it.

[boaz-raz]

Hi gwshaw,
Adding, gem 'minitest' to the gemfile file fixed the problem for me!
Thanks