title: Why don't RSpec's methods, "get", "post", "put", "delete" work in a controller spec in a gem (or outside Rails)?
body: <p>I'm not new to Rails or Rspec, but I'm new to making gems. When I test my controllers, the REST methods "get", "post", "put", "delete" give me an undefined method error.</p>
  
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  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>Here's my spec_helper:</p>
  
  <pre><code>
  $LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
  $LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
  require 'rubygems'
  require 'active_support' unless defined? ActiveSupport # Need this so that mattr_accessor will work in Subscriber module
  require 'active_record/acts/subscribable'
  require 'active_record/acts/subscriber'
  require 'action_view'
  require 'action_controller' # Since we'll be testing subscriptions controller
  #require 'action_controller/test_process'
  require 'spec'
  require 'spec/autorun'
  
  
  # Need active_support to user mattr_accessor in Subscriber module, and to set the following inflection
  ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
    inflect.irregular 'dorkus', 'dorkuses'
  end                     
  
  require 'active_record' # Since we'll be testing a User model which will be available in the app
  
  # Tell active record to load the subscribable files
  ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, ActiveRecord::Acts::Subscribable)
  ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, ActiveRecord::Acts::Subscriber)
  
  
  require 'app/models/user' # The user model we expect in the application
  require 'app/models/person'
  require 'app/models/subscription'
  require 'app/models/dorkus'
  require 'app/controllers/subscriptions_controller' # The controller we're testing
  #... more but I think irrelevant
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My subscriptions_spec:</p>
  
  <pre><code>
  require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper')
  
  describe SubscriptionsController, "on GET index" do
    load_schema
  
    describe ", when only subscribable params are passed" do
      it "should list all the subscriptions of the subscribable object"
    end
  
    describe ", when only subscriber params are passed" do
      it "should list all the subscriptions of the subscriber" do
        u = User.create
        d1 = Dorkus.create
        d2 = Dorkus.create
        d1.subscribe! u
        d2.subscribe! u
  
        get :index, {:subscriber_type => "User", :subscriber_id => u.id}
        assigns[:subscriptions].should == u.subscriptions
      end
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My subscriptions controller:</p>
  
  <pre><code>
  class SubscriptionsController &lt; ActionController::Base
    def index
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>
  NoMethodError in 'SubscriptionsController on GET index , when only subscriber params are passed should list all the subscriptions of the subscriber'
  undefined method `get' for #
  /home/ramon/rails/acts_as_subscribable/spec/controllers/subscriptions_controller_spec.rb:21:
  </code></pre>