class_projects_controller.rb

class ClassProjectsController < ApplicationController
  def new
  end
end

class_projects_controller_test.rb

require 'test_helper'

class ClassProjectsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
  test "GET new should render the new template" do
    get new_class_project_path
    assert_template "new"
  end
end

error

$ rake
(in /Users/dchelimsky/tmp/foo)
/Users/dchelimsky/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/Users/dchelimsky/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299@global/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/unit/helpers/class_projects_helper_test.rb" 
Loaded suite /Users/dchelimsky/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299@global/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader
Started

Finished in 0.000235 seconds.

0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
/Users/dchelimsky/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/Users/dchelimsky/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299@global/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/functional/class_projects_controller_test.rb" 
Loaded suite /Users/dchelimsky/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299@global/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader
Started
E
Finished in 0.01398 seconds.

  1) Error:
test_GET_new_should_render_the_new_template(ClassProjectsControllerTest):
ActionController::UnknownAction: No action responded to /class_projects/new. Actions: new
    /test/functional/class_projects_controller_test.rb:5:in `test_GET_new_should_render_the_new_template'

1 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors
/Users/dchelimsky/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p299/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/Users/dchelimsky/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p299@global/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb"  
Errors running test:functionals!

routes.rb

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
  map.resources :class_projects
 
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
end

I saw your tweet about this problem, and tweeted back (https://twitter.com/dchelimsky/status/21172405454) with a reference to this fork.

You are correct that rspec just runs on top of the rails test runner, adding rspec-specific decorations, but relying on the rails test runner to do much of the work. In this case, the problem is definitely in the rails test runner, so your best bet is to raise a ticket in the rails tracker (http://rails.lighthouseapp.com) and work with the rails folks to track it down and fix it.

I also so your other tweet about rspec causing you trouble. I welcome you to join the rspec-users mailing list/google group. Very friendly bunch who will be happy to help you get acclimated.

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
http://groups.google.com/group/rspec

Thank you for your help, I will definitely follow up with the rails team and see what I do to help solve this issue.