rspec Cannot load such file after working the first time - ruby

Question

When running through the rspec course in codeschool I keep running into the same problem. I will set up as requested and after creating zombie_spec.rb and running rspec I get the proper output listed below:
Justins-MacBook-Pro:rubyproject Justin$ rspec spec/lib/zombie_spec.rb
Run options: include {:focus=>true}
All examples were filtered out; ignoring {:focus=>true}
*
Pending:
A Zombie is named Ash
# Not yet implemented
# ./spec/lib/zombie_spec.rb:3
Finished in 0.00929 seconds
1 example, 0 failures, 1 pending
Randomized with seed 7259
As I continue on with the first video and create the class Zombie as mentioned I receive this error when running rspec again:
Justins-MacBook-Pro:rubyproject Justin$ rspec spec/lib/zombie_spec.rb
/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- zombie (LoadError)
from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from /Users/Justin/rubyproject/spec/lib/zombie_spec.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `load'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `block in load_spec_files'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `each'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `load_spec_files'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in `run'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in `run'
from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'
After this I removed everything and uninstalled and reinstalled rspec. Retried it again and returned the same results.
Any clue what is going on?
Thank you in advance for your help!

Answer 1

require_relative will load the file from the same directory as the rspec file

Answer 2

I had pretty much the same issue, though mine never worked even once at first. Updating the zombie_spec.rb file to show the full path of my zombie.rb file seemed to get it working properly.
Eg:require "/home/me/ruby/spec/lib/zombie"

Answer 3

I use this and it worked
require_relative "zombie.rb"

Answer 4

Well if this still a problem I got into the same issue so I created a folder under spec/lib where I put all the codes and another spec/test where goes all the tests then it worked.
and I also added require_relative here is the code snippet
zombie_spec.rb
require 'spec_helper'
require_relative '../lib/zombie'
describe Zombie do
it "has a name called'Jack'" do
zb = Zombie.new
zb.name.should == "Jack"
end
it "has no brains" do
zb = Zombie.new
zb.should be_intelligent == false
end
end
zombie.rb
class Zombie
attr_accessor :name
def initialize
#name = "Jack"
end
def intelligent?
false
end
end