Why am I getting an uninitialized constant error when trying to test cancan abilities in rspec?

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I'm trying to test cancan abilities using rspec in rails 3 on ruby 1.8.7.

when i include the line: require 'cancan/matchers' in my spec file and run rake, i get:

.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/cancan-1.1.1/lib/cancan/matchers.rb:1: uninitialized constant Spec (NameError) from ./spec/models/ability_spec.rb:3

How do i set up rspec and cancan correctly?

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