Capybara methods are undefined

Question

I cannot get capybara to work. I am using capybara 2.0.0

I get this error

Failure/Error: visit "/users/sign_in"
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_21:0x007fdda4c6eba0>

on this spec

spec/requests/forgot_password_spec.rb

describe "forgot password" do
  it "redirects user to users firms subdomain" do
    visit "/users/sign_in"  
  end
end

I do not get any errors that it cannot find capybara and it's included in the spec_helper.rb

spec_helper.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'
require 'database_cleaner'
Spork.prefork do
 ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
 require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
 require 'rspec/rails' 
 require 'capybara/rspec'
 require 'rspec/autorun'
 require 'factory_girl'


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

 RSpec.configure do |config|
   config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
   config.extend ControllerMacros, :type => :controller
   config.include RequestMacros, :type => :request
   config.mock_with :rspec

   config.use_transactional_fixtures = false

   config.before(:suite) do
     DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
   end

   config.before(:each) do
     DatabaseCleaner.start
   end

   config.after(:each) do
     DatabaseCleaner.clean
   end
   config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
 end
 Spork.each_run do
   FactoryGirl.reload  
 end
 end

Has anybody else encountered this?

Answer 1

If you've got version >= 2.0, any tests that use Capybara methods like visit should go under a spec/features directory, and not under spec/requests, where they'd normally reside in Capybara 1.1.2.

Have a look at the following links for more information:

• rspec-rails and capybara 2.0: what you need to know
• rspec-rails gem Capybara page

If you don't want to use a spec/features directory, you should be able to mark a test as a feature in the following way and have Capybara methods work:

describe "Some action", type: :feature do
  before do
    visit "/users/sign_in"
    # ...
  end
  # ...
end