Working with rspec

Notes

• RSpec isn’t included in a default rails application.

To setup rspec and friends 👫 to work a bundled ruby application add the below gems to the project's Gemfile

group :development, :test do
  gem “rspec-rails”, “~> 3.1.0”
  gem “factory_girl_rails”, “~> 4.4.1”
end

group :test do
  gem “faker”, “~> 1.4.3”
  gem “capybara”, “~> 2.4.3”
  gem “database_cleaner”, “~> 1.3.0”
  gem “launchy”, “~> 2.4.2”
  gem “selenium-webdriver”, “~> 2.43.0”
end

To install rspec within the bundled project

rails generate rspec:install

To test connectivity with the databases set-up in the config/database.yml run the below rake task.

bin/rake db:create:all

RSpec Configuration

The below command will setup rspec within a rails application / project

rails g rspec:install

To run the current tests in the test suite

rspec spec

To install the binstubs for Rspec

bundle binstubs rspec-core