[rspec-users] weirdness with rake spec!

[David Chelimsky]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Patrick J. Collins wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> 
> I am totally confused by this...  If I run rake spec, I get a bunch of failures
> in a particular file, but if I run script/spec on that individual file, all
> examples pass.
> 
> The error I am getting is with the pluralize method.  I put a debugger
> statement in my code to inspect what is happening:
> 
> (rdb:1) pluralize(5, 'foo')
> ArgumentError Exception: wrong number of arguments (2 for 0)
> 
> ...
> 
> This is a situation where I am doing the "self-shunt" method, because I don't
> know of a better way to accomplish this.  In other words, I am doing:
> 
> class Foo
> 
>  def initialize(template, number)
>    @template = template
> 	 @number = number
>  end
> 
>  def bar
>    pluralize(@number, 'foo')
>  end
> 
> 	def bar_link
> 	  link_to bar, foo_bar_path
> 	end
> 
>  def method_missing(*args, &block)
> 	 @template.send(*args, &block)
>  end
> 
> end
> 
> .........
> 
> Then in my spec I do:
> 
> Foo.new(self, 2).bar.should == "foos"
> 
> ..........
> 
> And like I said, if I run this spec individually, it passes, but with rake
> spec, it gives me that wrong number of arguments error.
> 
> I would love to structure this differently so that I don't need to pass self
> into the class initializer, but I am at a total loss for how to do that.
> 
> If I do:
> 
> include ActionView::Helpers
> include ActionController::UrlWriter
> 
> Then I get "can't convert string into hash" errors when ever I try to access a
> named route with link_to.
> 
> This is a problem I have had to face over and over, and has proven to be quite
> frustrating.  The only solution I have found is to pass self into the method..
> So if anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear it.

Is this a rails helper module? Is the spec in spec/helpers?