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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Write Our First Tests

Haris Beha
Haris Beha
557 Points
Posted by Haris Beha
Haris Beha
557 Points

Action Controller: Exception Caught

I followed all of the directions in the video. I ran the first rspec test with success. I'm having issues with the section where we edit the todo_list.rb model. After running my test, I get two examples and two failures. When running the test in the browser, I get the following error. I am running Ubuntu 12+ x64 on a Digital Ocean VPS. 

SyntaxError in TodoListsController#create
/var/www/html/prop/odot/app/models/todo_list.rb:5: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end, expecting end-of-input

Extracted source (around line #27):
25  # POST /todo_lists.json
26  def create
27    @todo_list = TodoList.new(todo_list_params)
28
29    respond_to do |format|
30      if @todo_list.save

Rails.root: /var/www/html/prop/odot
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points

It looks like there's a problem with your TodoList model. Can you share your code in todo_list.rb?

1 Answer

Haris Beha
Haris Beha
557 Points
Haris Beha
Haris Beha
557 Points

Figured it out. Small typos can cause big issues! Thanks for your response!