On Jun 21, 2012, at 11:12 AM, n/a n/a wrote: > I've been trying to learn RSpec using the book The RSpec Book by David > Chelimsky but I've been having a problem in Chapter 5 around page 50. I > tried running "rspec spec/codebreaker/game_spec.rb --format doc" but it > said that codebreaker could not be found. > > The file spec/codebreaker/game_spec.rb requires spec/spec_helper and > spec_helper requires spec/codebreaker. In fact, the whole contents of > spec/spec_helper.rb is "require 'codebreaker'". However, > spec/codebreaker is a directory not a file and I wonder if this is > causing the problem. It seems to me that "require 'codebreaker'" would > look for spec/codebreaker.rb, but I can't find anywhere where the book > says to define a file called spec/codebreaker.rb. > > Does anyone know what the problem might be? Can "require 'codebreaker'" > make sense if codebreaker is a directory but there is no codebreaker.rb > file?
No. `require` is for requiring files. If Ruby cannot find the file, it will raise an error. Can you push your code to Github so we can take a look? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
