Resolved: Turns out that the path to my spec_helper was not coming
out right. I added the following to each of my specs to get it
working:
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)) + '/../spec_helper'
That builds a dynamic (but absolute) path to the spec_helper. It
might not be the best way to do this so I'm still interested in folks
opinions (if they have them).
Cheers...