can't pass edit_spec.rb

Hi Jason,

These tests are failing because the tests are expecting find the word "error" in the page following submission of a todo_list with too short (or no) description and/or title. Your code is allowing the changes to be made so there is something wrong with your validation.

Can you post your todo_list.rb file from models, please?

You should have something like:

validates :title, presence: true
validates :title, length: { mimimum: 3 }

Steve.

My model.

class TodoList < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :title, presence: true  
  validates :title, length: { minimum: 3}   
  validates :description, presence: true
  validates :description, length: { minimum: 5 }
end

This is confusing! Is your project in GitHub at all? If I can clone it here, that might make it easier to catch the bug.

Let's take one test at a time - the issue is common across them all, though - and try the "no title" test first.

You're setting the title to be blank with this code in the test:

update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list, title: "" 

That sets the title to be a blank string and passes that in the hash to update_todo_list method. (Can you paste me the code for that, please. Let's make sure that's correct).

So once you've sent the method the blank title the code ignores that and displays "New title" instead of a blank one:

Editing todo lists displays an error with no title Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("error") expected to find text "error" in "Todo list was successfully updated. Title: New title

So, I'm hoping there's something wrong with your update_todo_list method, as I can't see where else the problem could lie! So, two things; post me that method and/or let me have a look at your GitHub repo.

Steve.

this is my method!

def update_todo_list(options={})

        options[:title] ||= "My todo list."

        options[:description] ||= "This is my todo list."

        todo_list = options[:todo_list]

        visit "/todo_lists"
        within "#todo_list_#{todo_list.id}" do
        click_link "Edit"
    end

        fill_in "Title", with: "New title"
        fill_in "Description", with: "New description"
        click_button "Update Todo list"
        todo_list.reload
    end

if there's nothing wrong here, how do i show you my Github repo? thanks!

It passed! I don't know what i might have missed but i understood your explanation. Thank you so much Steve, it was very helpful :)