命名路线打破了RSpec Michael Hartl的Ruby on Rails教程第5章

Question

I am working through Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails utorial. Everything works great until named routes are tested in Chapter 5, and they all break Rspec. I have confirmed that they all work correctly in the browser, and in views.

For example, in a layout the following works:

<li><%= link_to "About", about_path %></li>

However, in my Rspec file the following produces an error

visit about_path

The error I'm getting is:

Failure/Error: visit about_path 
 NameError:
undefined local variable or method 'about_path' for #<Rspec::Core::ExampleGroup.....

Every single named route fails including root_path, so all of my specs fail.

EDIT:

Here is my routes.rb :

root to: 'static_pages#home'
match '/help', to:'static_pages#help'
match '/about', to: 'static_pages#about'
match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact'

Answer 1

I think the error suggests that you have forgotten to include visit about_path in a before block that's why it's giving you an undefined variable or method. I think the answer is:

before { visit about_path }