Accessing view helpers to spec cell views, Rails3, RSpec2

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Hi – I’m trying to use the excellent Cells
http://cells.rubyforge.org/ gem
in a Rails 3 project with RSpec 2.
I’ve got the ‘controller’ bit of the cells specced okay, but I’m
struggling
with the ‘view’ bit.
What I want to do is to use RSpec’s view helper methods to render the
views,
but don’t know how to access them.
I’ve tried declaring the spec like this:
describe “tabs/show.html.haml”, :type => :view do
…
end

This, however, still won’t give me access to the assign( key, value )
method, so I guess I’m still drawing a blank, there.
Could someone advise me on how to access the view helpers in a spec that
falls outside of the normal rails dir structure?
(The actual path to the spec in question is
“spec/cells/tabs/show.html.haml_spec.rb”, and the file being specced is
“app/cells/tabs/show.html.haml”.)
Thanks for any & all help,
Doug.

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On Jul 8, 2010, at 4:29 AM, doug livesey wrote:

Hi – I’m trying to use the excellent Cells gem in a Rails 3 project with RSpec 2.
I’ve got the ‘controller’ bit of the cells specced okay, but I’m struggling with the ‘view’ bit.
What I want to do is to use RSpec’s view helper methods to render the views, but don’t know how to access them.
I’ve tried declaring the spec like this:
describe “tabs/show.html.haml”, :type => :view do

:type => xxx isn’t directly supported yet (not sure if it will be or
not), but you can use it yourself and then do this in your spec_helper:

RSpec.configure do |c|
c.include RSpec::Rails::ViewExampleGroup, :type => :view
end

HTH,
David

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Perfect, thankyou! :slight_smile: