prepare called on a closed database rails rspec - ruby

Question

I am trying to integrate BDD in my rails app via rspec. I am using guard and spork-rails to speed the monitoring process up. I am getting this error:
An error occurred in an after hook
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: ArgumentError: prepare called on a closed database:
rollback transaction occurred at /Users/davidhahn/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/sqlite3-1.3.6/lib/sqlite3/database.rb:91:in initialize
I ran rake db:test:prepare and it ran without any errors. Since I'm using sqlite I checked to make sure that the user_man_test.sqlite file was in db/. My test is just a simple integration test:
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Authentication" do
describe "Login Page" do
it "should have the h1 'Welcome to User Management'" do
visit '/log_in'
page.should have_selector('h1', text: 'Welcome to User Management')
end
end
describe "Login" do
before { visit '/log_in' }
describe "with invalid information" do
before { click_button "Login" }
it { should have_selector('h1', text: 'Welcome to User Management') }
it { should have_selector('div.alert.alert-error', text: 'Invalid') }
end
end
end
My spec_helper.rb looks like:
require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'
Spork.prefork do
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'rspec/autorun'
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
config.order = "random"
end
end
Spork.each_run do
# This code will be run each time you run your specs.
end
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Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Instead of spending hours trying to configure spork properly, I would advise you to look at Zeus. I'm sorry if this doesn't exactly answer your question, but I spent almost one year with spork, had tons of trouble configuring every time that I added a new test gem, and when I made the switch, everything magically worked (and in my experience, Zeus' performance is much better than Spork).