While RSpec 1 and 2 decided that specs inside spec/model are model specs, and those inside spec/features are feature specs (and so on), RSpec 3 will no longer do that by default.

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This will result in errors such as missing routing helpers, etc.

There are 2 ways to fix this:

• Explicitly set the type on each spec. For example:

  describe '...', type: 'feature' do
    # ...
  end
  

• Add this to your spec_helper.rb (inside the RSpec.configure block) to restore the old behavior Show archive.org snapshot :

  config.infer_spec_type_from_file_location!