Since rspec-rails 3, the default installation creates two helper files:
* `spec_helper.rb`
* `rails_helper.rb`
`spec_helper.rb` is intended as a way of running specs that do not
require Rails, whereas `rails_helper.rb` loads Rails (as Discourse's
current `spec_helper.rb` does).
For more information:
https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/upgrade#default-helper-files
In this commit, I've simply replaced all instances of `spec_helper` with
`rails_helper`, and renamed the original `spec_helper.rb`.
This brings the Discourse project closer to the standard usage of RSpec
in a Rails app.
At present, every spec relies on loading Rails, but there are likely
many that don't need to. In a future pull request, I hope to introduce a
separate, minimal `spec_helper.rb` which can be used in tests which
don't rely on Rails.
It adds a new setting 'email_prefix' to configure which [label] will be used in the subject of emails. Discourse currently uses '[title]'. The problem is that sometimes you need to set a longer title, that doesn't really work well for emails. I think this is very common since the HTML `<title>` tag is very important for SEO.
It will default to '[title]' if this setting is not used.
See: https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-change-the-email-subject-prefix/11989
