Rspec is giving an error with my layout links from the rails tutorial: "Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace"

Question

Hi, I'm following the rails tutorial here: http://railstutorial.org/chapters/filling-in-the-layout#top

When i run "rspec spec/", i get a bunch of errors that look like this:

1) LayoutLinks should have a Home page at '/'
    Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
    stack level too deep
    # C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/forwardable.rb:185

2) LayoutLinks should have a Contact page at '/contact'
    Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
    stack level too deep
    # C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/forwardable.rb:185

But when i go in my web browser to localhost:3000/ and localhost:3000/contact, the pages are there and the correct titles are there. Here is my myrailsroot\spec\requests\layout_links_spec.rb file:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "LayoutLinks" do

  it "should have a Home page at '/'" do
    get '/'
    response.should have_selector('title', :content => "Home")
  end

  it "should have a Contact page at '/contact'" do
    get '/contact'
    response.should have_selector('title', :content => "Contact")
  end

  it "should have an About page at '/about'" do
    get '/about'
    response.should have_selector('title', :content => "About")
  end

  it "should have a Help page at '/help'" do
    get '/help'
    response.should have_selector('title', :content => "Help")
  end

  it "should have a signup page at '/signup'" do
    get '/signup'
    response.should have_selector('title', :content => "Sign up")
  end

end

Any ideas would be great, thanks

Answer 1

This is due to a bug in RSpec 2.0.0.beta.19. If you use 2.0.0.beta.18 as the tutorial suggests, it will work fine. Just change whatever version you have in your Gemfile to beta 18, bundle install and run the tests again.

Here's the relevant parts from my Gemfile.

group :development do
  gem 'rspec-rails', '2.0.0.beta.18'
end

group :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails', '2.0.0.beta.18'
  gem 'spork', '0.8.4'
end

Also note that Spork can also cause problems like this from time to time. If you get inexplicable test failures, especially if you just added new controllers or actions, go kick spork a kick. Hit Ctrl-C and run the spork server again.

Answer 2

I upgraded to beta.20 which is now out. Had to add webrat into my gemfile and do another bundle install. In the gemfile, it looks like this:

group :test do
  gem "webrat"
  gem 'rspec', '2.0.0.beta.20'
end

Cheers

Answer 3

I was having similar issues with rspec. Installing webrat worked for me. Thanks for the advice!