How to setup RSpec, Capybara, and Factory Girl for Rails project

rails_testing_setup.md

Note: you want to do include -T when you first run rails new

1. add the following to your Gemfile:

   group :development do gem 'guard-rspec', require: false end

   group :test do gem 'capybara' gem 'launchy' end

   group :development, :test do gem 'rspec-rails' gem 'factory_girl_rails', '~> 4.0' end

2. rails g rspec:install

3. add the following at the top of your rails_helper.rb file:

   require 'factory_girl_rails

   require 'capybara/rails'

     config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
   end```
   
   

4. at the top of each spec file, include require 'rails_helper'

5. add --format documentation to the .rspec file

6. start testing!