in 'require': no such file to load — spec_helper

Question

Came across this error when trying out the ruby on rails tutorial section with rspec on a windows platform using jruby 1.6:

c:\\rails_projects\\sample_app>         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem but for a different reason:

in my spork.prefork block within my spec_helper.rb file I had this line

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

but within one of the files that was being required above (spec/support/some_helper_file.rb) was a require 'spec_helper' call

removing this unneeded require solved the issue