What error I’m getting
zsh: command not found: rspec
What I’m trying to do:
- Run
$ rspec
inside my rails app
What I’ve done so far
- Run
$ bundle
- Run
$ rails generate rspec:install
- Run
$ gem install rspec
- Run
$ sudo gem install rspec
- Run
$ bundle update rspec-rails
- Run
$ bundle binstubs rspec-core
My Gemfile
git_source(:github) { |repo| "https://github.com/#{repo}.git" }
ruby '2.7.4'
# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails', branch: 'main'
gem 'rails', '~> 6.1.4'
gem 'pg'
# Use Puma as the app server
gem 'puma', '~> 5.0'
# Use SCSS for stylesheets
gem 'sass-rails', '>= 6'
# Transpile app-like JavaScript. Read more: https://github.com/rails/webpacker
gem 'webpacker', '~> 5.0'
# Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster. Read more: https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
gem 'turbolinks', '~> 5'
# Build JSON APIs with ease. Read more: https://github.com/rails/jbuilder
gem 'jbuilder', '~> 2.7'
# Use Redis adapter to run Action Cable in production
# gem 'redis', '~> 4.0'
# Use Active Model has_secure_password
# gem 'bcrypt', '~> 3.1.7'
# Use Active Storage variant
# gem 'image_processing', '~> 1.2'
# Reduces boot times through caching; required in config/boot.rb
gem 'bootsnap', '>= 1.4.4', require: false
group :development, :test do
# Call 'byebug' anywhere in the code to stop execution and get a debugger console
gem 'byebug', platforms: [:mri, :mingw, :x64_mingw]
gem 'rspec-rails'
end
group :development do
# Access an interactive console on exception pages or by calling 'console' anywhere in the code.
gem 'web-console', '>= 4.1.0'
# Display performance information such as SQL time and flame graphs for each request in your browser.
# Can be configured to work on production as well see: https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler/blob/master/README.md
gem 'rack-mini-profiler', '~> 2.0'
gem 'listen', '~> 3.3'
# Spring speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background. Read more: https://github.com/rails/spring
gem 'spring'
end
group :test do
# Adds support for Capybara system testing and selenium driver
gem 'capybara', '>= 3.26'
gem 'selenium-webdriver'
# Easy installation and use of web drivers to run system tests with browsers
gem 'webdrivers'
end
# Windows does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem
gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw, :jruby]
Below is the spec file I’m trying to execute using rspec
My setup
- ruby 2.7.4p191
- Rails 6.1.4
By the way I’m not having any problem running my spec using $ bundle exec rspec
. I’m just curious how can I test my specs using the command $ rspec
which most likely I will be using all throughout my career as a rails developer.
2
Answers
If you are working with
bundler
, most of the time you’ll want to run gems under de bundled context; forrspec
that is always true. You should either be usingbundle exec
(which you can alias to something shorter), or use the binstub withbin/rspec
.If you add
./bin
to yourPATH
environment variable, you can run binstubs without needing to prefix withbin/
; so you could do justrspec
to call the binstub.Prepending
bundle exec
tells thebundler
to execute this command in context of the current bundle.Try doing the following steps:-
gem install rubygems-bundler
gem regenerate_binstubs
Then try using
rspec
withoutbundle exec