Rspec.describe on windows 7 results in an error?

[Mr. Kennedy]

Hello, I just got Rspec configured on my win7 lappy after wrestling against RubyGems v2.4 (broken for Windows) and updating RubyGems to v2.6.7. I'm just going through the tutorial videos on the home page http://rspec.info/ and am wondering if it is just a Windows thing that "Rspec.describe" throws an error? E.g. the bowling example: 

require 'bowling'

# Rspec.describe Bowling, "#score" do     #<-- this throws an error

describe Bowling, "#score" do                  #<-- this works

  context "with no strikes or spares" do

    it "sums the pin count for each roll" do

      bowling = Bowling.new

      20.times { bowling.hit(4) }

      expect(bowling.score).to eq 80

    end

  end

end

[Myron Marston]

What version of RSpec are you using?  Run `rspec -v` (or look in your `Gemfile.lock` if you are using bundler) to find out.  If you're using RSpec 3.x, I would absolutely expect `RSpec.describe` to work.  But on RSpec 2.x it should not.  It was part of the move in 3.x to support a zero monkey patching mode:

http://rspec.info/blog/2014/05/notable-changes-in-rspec-3/#new-exposedslglobally-config-option-to-disable-rspec-core-monkey-patching

HTH,

Myron

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[Xavier Shay]

try RSpec not Rspec (capital S)

(what error are you getting?)

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[Mr. Kennedy]

Hi Myron, I have rspec 3.5.4 - per Xavier's comment, tho, the problem here was entirely mine - "Rspec.describe" instead of "RSpec.describe" - whoops! Thanks to you both for the help :)

I'm not proficient enough w/programming to fully understand the logistical considerations for when RSpec.describe vs. describe is apropos, but this answer seems like an adequate explanation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24747448/rspec-describe-vs-describe

[Mr. Kennedy]

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 10:51:12 AM UTC-4, Xavier Shay wrote:

try RSpec not Rspec (capital S)

(what error are you getting?)

Hi Xavier,

You are correct - it was throwing a NameError: uninitialized constant Rspec (NameError)

Thank you!