How to call an app helper method from an RSpec test in Rails?

Question

The title is self explanatory.

Everything I\'ve tried led to a \"undefined method\".

To clarify, I am not trying to test a helper method. I am trying to use a he

Answer 1

If you are trying to use a helper method on your view test, you can go with the following:

before do
  view.extend MyHelper
end

It must be inside a describe block.

It works for me on rails 3.2 and rspec 2.13