# Error when running plugin specs
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-running-plugin-specs/274701
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [August 10, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-running-plugin-specs/274701 "2023-08-10T18:04:17Z")
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-running-plugin-specs/274701/1 "2023-08-10T18:04:17Z")
I’m getting this on two dev instances when trying to run plugin specs on latest.
(database has been rully migrated in the test environment):
e.g `bin/rake plugin:spec\[discourse-locations]`
```plaintext
An error occurred while loading rails_helper.
Failure/Error: default_scope { where(deleted_at: nil) }
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR: relation "chat_channels" does not exist
LINE 9: WHERE a.attrelid = '"chat_channels"'::regclass
< SNIP >
# --- Caused by: ---
# PG::UndefinedTable:
# ERROR: relation "chat_channels" does not exist
# LINE 9: WHERE a.attrelid = '"chat_channels"'::regclass
```
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-running-plugin-specs/274701/2 "2023-08-10T18:16:51Z")
Looking at the test database, the chat migrations appear not to have run.
```plaintext
> psql discourse_test
# \d
```
Oh …!
I forgot to add the first environment variable to include plugins with this db migration (because chat is still a plugin):
```plaintext
LOAD_PLUGINS=1 RAILS_ENV=test rake db:migrate
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-running-plugin-specs/274701/3 "2023-09-09T18:17:00Z")
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