Chapter 7: Tests Failing with "undefined method 'respond_with'

[godzilla74]

I made the changes in section 7.9 to product_controllers_spec.rb and product_controllers.rb and now my tests are failing. Before doing these steps, my tests were green.

 Failures:
 1) Api::V1::ProductsController GET #show 
  Failure/Error: it { should respond_with 200 }
  NoMethodError:
   undefined method `respond_with' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1:0x007fd2e33762f8>
 # ./spec/controllers/api/v1/products_controller_spec.rb:21:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

 2) Api::V1::ProductsController POST #create when is successfully created 
 Failure/Error: it { should respond_with 201 }
 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `respond_with' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_3::Nested_1:0x007fd2e2eb0c28>
 # ./spec/controllers/api/v1/products_controller_spec.rb:81:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

 3) Api::V1::ProductsController POST #create when is not created 
 Failure/Error: it { should respond_with 422 }
 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `respond_with' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_3::Nested_2:0x007fd2e339d2b8>
 # ./spec/controllers/api/v1/products_controller_spec.rb:102:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

 4) Api::V1::ProductsController GET #index when is not receiving any product_ids parameter 
 Failure/Error: it { should respond_with 200 }
 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `respond_with' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_2::Nested_1:0x007fd2e80fb1e0>
 # ./spec/controllers/api/v1/products_controller_spec.rb:46:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

 5) Api::V1::ProductsController PUT/PATCH #update when is successfully updated 
 Failure/Error: it { should respond_with 200 }
 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `respond_with' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_4::Nested_1:0x007fd2e2f00f70>
 # ./spec/controllers/api/v1/products_controller_spec.rb:123:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

 6) Api::V1::ProductsController PUT/PATCH #update when is not updated 
 Failure/Error: it { should respond_with 422 }
 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `respond_with' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_4::Nested_2:0x007fd2e1526550>
 # ./spec/controllers/api/v1/products_controller_spec.rb:141:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

 7) Api::V1::ProductsController DELETE #destroy 
 Failure/Error: it { should respond_with 204 }
 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `respond_with' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_5:0x007fd2e0ce3118>
 # ./spec/controllers/api/v1/products_controller_spec.rb:153:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

[kurenn]

Are you using version 4.2 of rails?

[godzilla74]

@kurenn I started matching your GemFile from Chapter 1, which had rails 4.0.2, I just changed to rails 4.2.0, ran bundle update & bundle install, still getting the same rspec errors.

[kurenn]

The respond_with method was taken out from Rails 4.2, you can still get this behavior with the responders gem.

Let me know how it goes!

[godzilla74]

@kurenn Tried to add the responders gem, which indicated I only need to run bundle install to support backwards compatibility, didn't work!

Switched back to rails 4.0.2, removed responders, and still getting the same error. I'm stumped at this point.

[kurenn]

I did not notice, it as a Rspec error, which version are you using?

[godzilla74]

@kurenn rspec-core 2.99.2

[kurenn]

Try using rspec-rails version 2.14, that should fix the problem

[godzilla74]

@kurenn Changed Gemfile to:

 group :test do
   gem "rspec-rails", "2.14"
   gem 'shoulda-matchers'
end

Still no luck though!

 Api::V1::ProductsController GET #show 
   Failure/Error: it { should respond_with 200 }
   NoMethodError:
     undefined method `respond_with' for #     <RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1:0x007fad924af4b0>
 # ./spec/controllers/api/v1/products_controller_spec.rb:21:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

I also grabbed your version of products_controller_spec.rb on the Chapter7 branch just to make sure I didn't have any misconfigs.

[kurenn]

It has to be then with Shoulda Matchers, you think you can match the version on the repo?

[godzilla74]

That was it!

This is what my Gemfile to looks like, in case you want to update the tutorial:

 group :test do
  gem "rspec-rails", "2.14"
  gem 'shoulda-matchers', "2.6.1"
end

Thanks!

[kurenn]

Thanks to you! =)