Rspec and named routes

Question

I'm quite new to rails, and trying to follow the railstutorial. Everything goes fine, except for my tests which can't get past the named routes (5.3.3)

My routes.rb :

 SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do

 resources :users
 match '/signup',  to: 'users#new'

 match '/help',    to: 'static_pages#help'
 match '/about',   to: 'static_pages#about'
 match '/contact', to: 'pages#contact'

 root to: 'static_pages#home'

 #Commented stuff

My firsts tests (spec/controllers/static_pages_controller_spec.rb) :

describe "Static pages" do

subject { page }

shared_examples_for "all static pages" do
  it { should have_selector('h1',    text: heading) }
  it { should have_selector('title', text: full_title(page_title)) }
end

describe "Home page" do
  before { visit root_path }
  let(:heading)    { 'Sample App' }
  let(:page_title) { 'Home' }

  it_should_behave_like "all static pages"
end

#Other tests

The spec_helper.rb looks like (without all the commented stuff)

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

Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}

RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
    config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
    config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
end

The errors I get from rspec are all like this one :

 Static pages Home page it should behave like all static pages 
 Failure/Error: before { visit root_path }
 NameError:
   undefined local variable or method `root_path' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_2::Nested_1::Nested_1:0x00000004a12210>
 Shared Example Group: "all static pages" called from ./spec/controllers/static_pages_controller_spec.rb:17
 # ./spec/controllers/static_pages_controller_spec.rb:13:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

I already tried using

 include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers

in the spec_helper, but it changed my errors to

 Static pages Home page it should behave like all static pages 
 Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
 SystemStackError:
   stack level too deep
 # /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/forwardable.rb:185

I also tried different way of renaming my routes, but none of them worked. I'm back to the tutorial version.

If it can be of any help in finding what exactly is a problem, I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, with rails 3.2.1 and ruby 1.9.2p290. Hope you can help, I spend quite a while googling for a solution and didn't find any ^^'

Answer 1

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?