ruby on rails 3 - undefined method `has_content?' for "HomePages":String - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

i'm new to ruby and i just start my first project.
when i'm trying to run my first test throught rspec i failed.
this is my gemfile:
source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.2.12'
gem 'bootstrap-sass', '2.3.0.1'
gem 'bcrypt-ruby', '3.0.1'
gem 'faker', '1.1.2'
gem 'will_paginate', '3.0.4'
gem 'bootstrap-will_paginate', '0.0.9'
gem 'jquery-rails', '2.2.1'
gem 'mysql2'
#gem 'execjs'
gem 'therubyracer', :platforms => :ruby
# Dev and test gems
group :development, :test do
gem 'rspec-rails', '2.13.0'
gem 'guard-rspec', '2.4.1'
gem 'guard-spork', '1.4.2'
gem 'spork', '0.9.2'
end
# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
gem 'sass-rails', '3.2.6'
gem 'coffee-rails', '3.2.2'
gem 'uglifier', '1.3.0'
end
#only test gems
group :test do
gem 'capybara', '2.0.2'
gem 'factory_girl_rails', '4.2.1'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '1.3.0', :require => false
gem 'database_cleaner', '0.9.1'
# gem 'launchy', '2.1.0'
# gem 'rb-fsevent', '0.9.1', :require => false
# gem 'growl', '1.0.3'
end
group :production do
gem 'pg', '0.12.2'
end
and here is my home_pages_spec.rb
require 'spec_helper'
describe "HomePages" do
before { get 'home_page/home'}
it { should have_content("Home")}
end
when i run
bundle exec rspec spec/requests/home_pages_spec.rb
i get
Failures:
1) HomePages
Failure/Error: it { should have_content("Home")}
NoMethodError:
undefined method `has_content?' for "HomePages":String
# ./spec/requests/home_pages_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
please help me, i search a little and saw similar problem but not as quite.. plus they were kinda old and what used to be bug isnt now.
plus if you can explain to me why i cant use the visit command (also undefined method `visit' for RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1...) and have to use the get command it will be great

Answer 1

if you use it instead of expect(page).to, you have to declare what is the it:
describe "HomePages" do
before { get 'home_page/home'}
subject { page }
it { should have_content("Home")}
end
or you can simply do:
describe "HomePages" do
before { get 'home_page/home'}
expect(page).to have_content('Home')
end

Answer 2

The method get is from rspec-rails, and it allows us to do this:
specify { response.should have_content("Foo") }
The method visit is from capybara, and it allows us to do this:
specify { page.should have_content("Foo") }
These methods used to be available to all specs in spec/requests, but as of Capybara 2.0, these have been separated. We now place Capybara integration tests in spec/features.
Please see this blog post for why this was done.

Answer 3

I believe you are looking for rspec's have_content() http://rubydoc.info/github/jnicklas/capybara/master/Capybara/RSpecMatchers
change the line: it { should have_contact("Home")}
to: it { should have_content("Home")}
hope this helps