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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 cp88
cp88
5,039 Points

Error during "Build a Todo List Application" when watching "Adding Todo Items" video

I'm receiving an error when running the following command and not sure why. I've gone through the video twice and checked my code, plus I've downloaded the project files and compared them to the ones I've edited during this video using a comparison tool and still don't know where I'm going wrong :( Please can somebody help?

treehouse:~/projects/odot (master *) $ 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: expect(page).to have_content("Added todo list item.")
       expected to find text "Added todo list item." in "Added todo list item Grocery list Milk New Todo Item"
     # ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:18:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 1.45 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 28863

treehouse:~/projects/odot (master *) $

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

It seems like the test is looking for a dot at the end of that sentence and it's not there when the page loads. Try changing the expectation from "Added todo list item." to "Added todo list item"

cp88
cp88
5,039 Points

Oh Maciej, you are a genius. There was a full stop discrepancy but I thought it didn't matter as it was only in a string! But if you're comparing two strings it will matter!

Thank you :D I will trace through the files and add the full stop so it matches Jason's video.