The current incarnation of autotest seems to assume that you are using integrated views. If not, you can modify the rspec_rails_autotest.rb file to run the view specs as well:
:::ruby
# when %r%^app/views/layouts/(.*)\.rhtml% then
# ["spec/views/layouts/#{$1}_spec.rb"]
when %r%^app/views/(.*)\.rhtml$% then
["spec/views/#{$1}_view_spec.rb"]
Your view spec must be postfixed with “_view_spec.rb” for it to work
Update This works out of the box now.