Mon Oct 01 2007 04:41:13 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) I am not yet converted to the idea of testing/specing views in separation so I usually invoke integrate_views at the top of my controller specs. I also have a bunch of helper methods that I want to reuse across my specs. To encapsulate those needs and DRY up my specs I came up with this little method that I keep in my spec/spec_helper.