# Rspec: \`should': uninitialized constant RSpec::Expectations (NameError)

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rspec-should-uninitialized-constant-rspec-expectations-nameerror/56088>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [December 6, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rspec-should-uninitialized-constant-rspec-expectations-nameerror/56088 "2010-12-06T02:36:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rspec-should-uninitialized-constant-rspec-expectations-nameerror/56088/1 "2010-12-06T02:36:47Z")

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Hi all, tried posting this to rspec group but w/o success so hope someone on this list might be able to help me out as am kind of stuck:

Can anyone tell me why I am getting this error trying to ‘rake spec’:

‘kernel.rb:27:in `should’: uninitialized constant RSpec::Expectations (NameError)'.

Can’t seem to find a useful reference online to solve. This project I was working on a few months ago and got put aside, meanwhile I rebuilt my mac. So something is off but not sure what.

Using rvm, Rails 3.0.3, Ruby 1.9.2, my gemfile.lock installs fine and shows the following for rspec. I actually deleted my rvm gemset and re-installed the bundle just in case but same error.

Gemfile.lock rspec (2.2.0) rspec-core (~\> 2.2) rspec-expectations (~\> 2.2) rspec-mocks (~\> 2.2) rspec-core (2.2.1) rspec-expectations (2.2.0) diff-lcs (~\> 1.1.2) rspec-mocks (2.2.0) rspec-rails (2.2.1) actionpack (~\> 3.0) activesupport (~\> 3.0) railties (~\> 3.0) rspec (~\> 2.2.0)

Gemfile:

group :development, :test do gem ‘ruby-debug19’ gem ‘cucumber-rails’ gem ‘cucumber’, ‘\>=0.8.5’ gem ‘capybara’ gem ‘rspec-rails’ gem ‘factory\_girl\_rails’ gem ‘webrat’, ‘\>=0.4.3’ gem ‘heroku’ gem ‘database\_cleaner’ end

Thanks,

David