Visit method not found in my rspec

My java web application is running on tomcat at http://localhost:8080/

Writing my first spec, home_spec:

require 'spec_helper'


describe "home" do

    it "should render the home page" do
       visit "/"

       page.should have_content("hello world")
    end

end

And running:

rspec

I get:

F

Failures:

  1) home should render the home page
     Failure/Error: visit "/"
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x242870b7>
     # ./spec/home/home_spec.rb:7:in `(root)'

Finished in 0.012 seconds
1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/home/home_spec.rb:6 # home should render the home page

Shouldn't this work because I have included capybara in the spec_helper?

How will it know to visit the correct url? what if my url is localhost:3030 or localhost:8080?

My gemfile:

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem "activerecord"
gem "rspec"
gem "capybara"
gem "activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter"

My spec_helper:

require 'capybara/rspec'

Regarding to rspec issues (https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/360)

you should put

config.include Capybara::DSL

in spec_helper.rb, inside the config block.

The default directory that Capybara::RSpec now looks at to include the Capybara::DSL and Capybara::RSpecMatchers is changed from requests to features.

After I renamed my requests directory to features I got the matcher and DSL methods available again without having to explicitly include them.

See the following commit

Also make sure your tests are in the /spec/features directory. According to rspec-rails and capybara 2.0, Capybara v2 and higher will not be available by default in RSpec request specs. They suggest to "...move any tests that use capybara from spec/requests to spec/features."

By default the capybara DSL is included automatically if the file is in spec/requests, spec/integration or if the example group has :type => :request.

Because your file is in spec/home the capybara helpers aren't being included. You can either conform to one of the patterns above or adding include Capybara::DSL should also do the trick (you might also need to replicate some of the before(:each) stuff that would be setup.)

First check it out

If you are not success,

Add this code your end of the your spec helper actually out of the RSpec.configure block as well

module ::RSpec::Core
  class ExampleGroup
    include Capybara::DSL
    include Capybara::RSpecMatchers
  end
end

1. Add to ‘rails_helper’ config:

   config.include Capybara::DSL config.include Capybara::RSpecMatchers

   And comment out the require 'spec_helper' line.

2. Add to 'spec_helper':

   require 'rails_helper'