Rspec doesn't see my model Class. uninitialized constant error

In rails 4.x (rspec-rails 3.1.0) use

require "rails_helper"  # this

not

require "spec_helper"   # not this

in your spec files

ruby-on-rails testing model rspec

Your spec_helper file is missing some important commands. Specifically, it's not including config/environment and initializing rspec-rails.

You can add the following lines to the start of your spec/spec_helper.rb file

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)require 'rspec/rails'require 'rspec/autorun'

or you can just run

rails generate rspec:install

and overwrite your spec_helper with one generated for use with rspec-rails.

ruby-on-rails testing model rspec

You might also like to add --require rails_helper in your .rspec file so that it looks like this.

--color--require spec_helper--require rails_helper

You won't need to require rails_helper in all your specs, after this.

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