site_prism not working with spork

[natritmeyer]

site_prism not working with spork

[Fryie]

A "require 'capybara'" at the top of page.rb should fix the issue.
Maybe this could be included in future versions?

[natritmeyer]

Did it work when you added require 'capybara'?

[Fryie]

Yes.

[natritmeyer]

Hi @Fryie, since this works fine when you require 'capybara', as stated in the README.md, I'm going to close this.

[Fryie]

I think this has been a misunderstanding.

I added "require 'capybara'" to page.rb, which worked.
Adding capybara to spec_helper.rb doesn't help at all. No matter whether it's declared at the top or inside either of the Spork blocks.

[natritmeyer]

Are you requiring your spec_helper.rb in your .rspec file?

[Fryie]

Doesn't change anything.

Spork preloads the entire Rails environment. At that point, RSpec or Cucumber files haven't been loaded yet.
It may be Spork's fault not to provide a custom initializer (or maybe I'm just too stupid to find it), but still I think that a gem should manage its own dependencies. What would be the harm in requiring capybara explicitly from site_prism?

As an aside, the same problem happens - for whatever reason - when committing the codebase to travis CI. See: https://travis-ci.org/Fryie/stuts-orga/jobs/10685216

[natritmeyer]

I've never used spork before, but having quickly scanned the documentation it looks like require 'capybara' should go in a...

Spork.prefork do
  #...
end

...block. Dunno, just a guess...

[Fryie]

Spork is just a test server against which rspec or cucumber run. It preloads the Rails environment and does not read the spec_helper.rb (or env.rb) files - that happens later, when rspec or cucumber connects to it. At least that's the way I understand it.

Travis CI seems to do a similar thing, just preloading the Rails environment before running any tests.

When preloading the environment, capybara has not been required yet, hence (I guess) the error.