未初始化的常量ApplicationRecord rspec

Question

1) created a model called Skill

2) ran some seeds

3) ran rspec --init

4) created file skill_spec.rb with the code below

require_relative "../app/models/skill"

describe Skill do
  describe "database" do
    it "should have 42 skills" do
      expect(Skill.all.count).to eq(42)
    end
  end
end

5) when I run rspec in console get error:

Failure/Error: class Skill < ApplicationRecordNameError: uninitialized constant ApplicationRecord

I already have a file application_record.rb with the following code

class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
  self.abstract_class = true
end

Answer 1

For rails specs use require 'rails-helper' at beginning of each spec file (it is generated by bin/rails generate rspec:install from rspec-rails gem)

It contains line require File.expand_path('../config/environment', __dir__) that will load your rails environment and you'll have autoloading and all other rails parts working.