Rspec and named routes

Named routes should work if you put the following in rspec_helper.rb:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
  ...
end

Is that how you set it up?

Google brought me here, even my error message doesn't fit 100%.

In my case Capybara command visitis unknown...

Error:

NoMethodError:
       undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xa49a73c>

Since Capybara 2.0 one has to use folder spec/features capybara commands don't work in folder spec/requests anymore.

That helped me: http://alindeman.github.com/2012/11/11/rspec-rails-and-capybara-2.0-what-you-need-to-know.html

Hope you find this usefull.

I don't think you have access to named routes inside of your rspec controller specs. You could however just do visit('/'), which is the equivalent of root_path.

I had the same problem, with the same Tutorial. It turns out that I needed to just restart the Spork service, and all worked fine.

The solution posted by Tom L worked for me, but when I removed that line and restarted Spork, that also fixed the problem.

Hope that helps out any other people who are wary about deviating from the tutorial's code!