undefined method `html_tag' while testing with rspec and spork

[amuino]

I'm using html_tag fine in development, staging and test environments, but it raises an error when using rspec with spork to test the controllers and render_views is used.

  ActionView::Template::Error:
       undefined method `html_tag' for #<#<Class:0x007fbdbd769440>:0x007fbdbb895d20>

I have the gem declared outside of any scope, so it is available for the test environment.

It works fine when used outside of spork (rspec --no-drb spec/whatever_spec.rb)

I've tried to manually add the helpers on the prefork and each_run blocks without any effect.

Any suggestions or workarounds?

[sporkd]

I'm not totally sure what's going on with that. I'm using spork on projects and am not having any issues. But I'm posting my Gemfile and spec_helper in case it helps:

gem 'html5-rails'

group :assets do
  gem 'compass-rails'
  gem 'compass-h5bp'
  gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.3'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1'
  gem 'therubyracer', :platforms => :ruby
  gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3'
end

spec_helper.rb:

require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'

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

  RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
    config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
    config.mock_with :rspec
  end
end

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

[joegatt]

@amuino did you ever solve this? I'm having the same issue. If I temporarily replace the html_tag with %html, then it throws an error on google_account_id. Outside of Spork, tests work fine.

[amuino]

No, not solved. I tried a few things but couldn't make it work.

[joegatt]

@amuino - In case you're still dealing with this, I finally realised that this was being caused by a spork issue sporkrb/spork#109 . Applying the workaround mentioned here - sporkrb/spork#140 - solved it for me.

[amuino]

@joegatt thanks, solved the errors for me.

I'm closing this issue since the cause seems to be spork itself.