Controllers specs don't currently work on the Rails main branch (8.0.0.alpha) about rspec-rails

[jeromedalbert]

Yeah, the main issue is when running tests on one's local, since it's not a CI environment and eager load is disabled by default.

[jrafanie]

@jeromedalbert I see your example failing. I'm not sure if you noticed but changing to eager_load makes your example pass:

class MyApp < Rails::Application
  config.eager_load = true

  routes.append { root to: 'hello#index' }
end

Note, rails defaults to eager load in test for CI in new apps.

[jrafanie]

A current workaround to make the spec pass is to add before { Rails.application.reload_routes! } in the spec, or config.before(:suite) { Rails.application.reload_routes! } in your rails helper.

I wonder if makes sense to eager load routes before it tries to fetch the routes in the specific types of example groups: controller, request, routing, system by adding something like:

        routes_reloader = ::Rails.application.routes_reloader
        routes_reloader.execute_unless_loaded if routes_reloader&.respond_to?(:execute_unless_loaded)

[jeromedalbert]

Looks like the commit that introduced deferred routes was reverted, and Rails main is working at the moment.

[pirj]

Thanks for the heads-up. Can this be closed, or is there anythibg actionable left?