Uninitialized constant NameError in Rspec - ruby

Question

When I run rails c, I can call the following class and the method works:
test = SlackService::BoardGameNotifier
test.create_alert("test")
>>method works
I'm trying to set this up in rspec like this:
require 'spec_helper'
require 'slack-notifier'
RSpec.describe SlackService::BoardGameNotifier do
describe '#notify' do
#notifier = SlackService::BoardGameNotifier
it 'pings Slack' do
error = nil
message = "test"
expect(notifier).to receive(:ping).with(message)
notifier.send_message()
end
end
end
But I keep getting the error:
NameError:
uninitialized constant SlackService
Does this have to do with how I set up the module?
My current setup:
slack_service/board_game_notifier.rb
module SlackService
class BoardGameNotifier < BaseNotifier
WEBHOOK_URL = Rails.configuration.x.slack.url
DEFAULT_OPTIONS = {
channel: "board-games-channel",
text: "board games alert",
username: "bot",
}
def create_alert(message)
message #testing
end
end
end
slack_service/base_notifier.rb
module SlackService
class BaseNotifier
include Singleton
def initialize
webhook_url = self.class::WEBHOOK_URL
options = self.class::DEFAULT_OPTIONS
#notifier = Slack::Notifier.new(webhook_url, options)
end
def self.send_message
message = instance.create_alert("test")
instance.notify(message)
end
def notify(message)
#notifier.post blocks: message
end
end
end

Answer 1

Add this to your spec_helper.rb
# spec_helper.rb
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "test"
require File.expand_path("../config/environment", __dir__)
When running RSpec, Rails doesn't automatically boot up, and therefore doesn't automatically load all the libraries.
Also, I'd suggest creating a .rspec in your app's root folder with the following lines so that spec_helper is automatically loaded for all your RSpec tests:
# .rspec
--format documentation
--color
--require spec_helper

Answer 2

I would use the described_class from Rspec
require 'spec_helper'
require 'slack-notifier'
RSpec.describe ::SlackService::BoardGameNotifier do
describe '#notify' do
it 'pings Slack' do
error = nil
message = "test"
expect(described_class).to receive(:ping).with(message)
notifier.send_message()
end
end
end