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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Adding Todo Items

Posted by Harrison Hondo
Harrison Hondo
7,283 Points

Can't figure out how to fix error

I've been following Jason's videos and can't figure out why I am receiving this error when running 

bin/rspec --format=documentation spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb

Adding todo items
  is successful with valid content (FAILED - 1)

Failures:

  1) Adding todo items is successful with valid content
     Failure/Error: fill_in "Content", with: "Milk"
     Capybara::ElementNotFound:
       Unable to find field "Content"
     # ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:16:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.41681 seconds
1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:13 # Adding todo items is successful with valid content

Randomized with seed 41716

My Github repository for the project is: https://github.com/hondoh/ODOT

5 Answers

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Hello Harrison Hondo !

I went to your code over here and it didn't seem to have a commit from today. There's also no create_spec.rb, so it looks like maybe you didn't push your most recent commits to Github.

Other than that, remember: the error messages are gold! :grinning: Try starting with line 13 of your spec -- thats where the problem is starting!

Hope this helps!

Harrison Hondo
Harrison Hondo
7,283 Points

Oh, oops I just made a new commit to reflect the changes I've made. I'm still not sure about what the issue is though.

https://github.com/hondoh/ODOT

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points
Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Hi Harrison Hondo,

Well, it looks like that create spec is still not showing in your Github repo. I wonder if maybe you didn't commit all of the files.

At any rate, some things:

  1. Sometimes in the later stages of the ODOT classes, Jason makes changes between videos that change how the tests and stuff work. You might want to compare your code with the code for the video you worked on, or even for the following video, and see what you may have left out.

  2. Your error is also mentioning that it's Unable to find field "Content". I'm pretty new at this so this is a bit of a stab in the dark, but I wonder if one of your views or forms just doesn't have that field listed. In fact, I noticed this when I searched for "content" in your repo:

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Looks like maybe your code didn't create "content" in your database. As a result, you might have to rollback your database, change the code, and then re-rake it. Here's some help for that. Good luck, and please do let me know how it goes! :thumbsup:

Active Record Migrations: Rolling Back

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points
Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Thanks for the best answer click! Is everything working now?

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points
Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Thanks for the best answer click! Is everything working now?

Dave Alexander
Dave Alexander
4,894 Points
Dave Alexander
Dave Alexander
4,894 Points

I am getting this error and can't find an answer anywhere.

1) Editing todo items is successful with valid content Failure/Error: fill_in "Content", with: "Lots of Milk" Capybara::ElementNotFound: Unable to find field "Content" # ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:19:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

MY CODE:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Editing todo items" do let!(:todo_list) { TodoList.create(title: "Grocery List", description: "Groceries") } let!(:todo_item) { todo_list.todo_items.create(content: "Milk") }

def visit_todo_list(list)
    visit "/todo_lists"
    within "#todo_list_#{list.id}" do
        click_link "List Items"
    end
end

it "is successful with valid content" do
    visit_todo_list(todo_list)
    within("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") do
        click_link "Edit"
    end
    fill_in "Content", with: "Lots of Milk"
    click_button "Save"
    expect(page).to have_content("Saved todo list item.")
    todo_item.reload
    expect(todo_item.content).to eq("Lots of Milk")
end

end