received unexpected message :split [ an error in an rspec controller test ]

original code:

  it 'should add a flight given the correct data' do

    details = Factory.build(:flight).attributes

    @mock_flight.should_receive(:save).and_return(true)

    Flight.should_receive(:new).with(details).and_return(@mock_flight)

    post 'create', :flight => details

    response.should redirect_to( @mock_flight )

  end

correction:

-    response.should redirect_to( @mock_flight )

+   response.should redirect_to( flight_url(@mock_flight) )

notes:

-  @mock_flight is defined in a before(:all) block.

-  flight_url is generated by the following line in config/routes.rb:

        map.resources :flights

[Rails error] Unpacked Gem has no specification file.

Recently I started working on a new project. Every time I did anything from the command line, I got this irritating error message when rails loaded it's environment: 

config.gem: Unpacked gem [whatever] in vendor/gems has no specification file. Run 'rake gems:refresh_specs' to fix this.

I run rake gems:refresh_specs. I get:

config.gem: Unpacked gem [whatever] in vendor/gems has no specification file. Run 'rake gems:refresh_specs' to fix this.

and the problem isn't fixed.

The "specification file" it wants is, simply, gem_path/.specification

The first step to resolving this was to go to RubyForge to see if the gem _had_ a specification file. In my case, it did not.

So, to resolve the issue, I simply created a .specification file in the gem's root directory. As far as I can tell, this is the minimum information necessary:

--- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 

name: archive-tar-minitar 

version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 

  version: 0.5.2

require_paths:

- lib

platform: ruby

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