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Ruby Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails Building the Friendship UI Creating the Friendship

Lisa Rossiter
Lisa Rossiter
3,630 Points

Error with testing friend, and user_firendship

Error

admins-imac:ujunto admin$ ruby -I test test/controllers/user_friendships_controller_test.rb
Run options: --seed 51952

# Running tests:

..........FF..

Finished tests in 0.277235s, 50.4987 tests/s, 75.7480 assertions/s.

  1) Failure:
UserFriendshipsControllerTest#test_: when logged in with a valid friend_id should assign a friend object.  [test/controllers/user_friendships_controller_test.rb:92]:
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#<User id: 830138774, first_name: "sam", last_name: "toms", profile_name: "sup", email: "modernoozedesign2@gmail.com", encrypted_password: "password1", reset_password_token: nil, reset_password_sent_at: nil, remember_created_at: nil, sign_in_count: 0, current_sign_in_at: nil, last_sign_in_at: nil, current_sign_in_ip: nil, last_sign_in_ip: nil, created_at: "2014-04-26 13:08:15", updated_at: "2014-04-26 13:08:15">
+nil


  2) Failure:
UserFriendshipsControllerTest#test_: when logged in with a valid friend_id should assign a user_friendship object.  [test/controllers/user_friendships_controller_test.rb:98]:
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#<User id: 902541635, first_name: "Bob", last_name: "Barker", profile_name: "bobb", email: "bob.barker@example.com", encrypted_password: "password1", reset_password_token: nil, reset_password_sent_at: nil, remember_created_at: nil, sign_in_count: 0, current_sign_in_at: nil, last_sign_in_at: nil, current_sign_in_ip: nil, last_sign_in_ip: nil, created_at: "2014-04-26 13:08:15", updated_at: "2014-04-26 13:08:15">
+nil


14 tests, 21 assertions, 2 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips
admins-imac:ujunto admin$ 

Tests

context "with a valid friend_id" do
      setup do
        post :create, friend_id: users(:john).id
      end

      should "assign a friend object" do
        assert_equal users(:john), assigns(:friend)
      end

      should "assign a user_friendship object" do
        assert assigns(:user_friendship)
        assert_equal users(:john), assigns(:user_friendship).user
        assert_equal users(:bob), assigns(:user_friendship).friend
      end
    end

class UserFriendshipsController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_user!, only: [:new]

  def new
    if params[:friend_id]
      @friend = User.where(profile_name: params[:friend_id]).first
      raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound if @friend.nil?
      @user_friendship = current_user.user_friendships.new(friend: @friend)
    else
      flash[:error] = "Friend required"
    end
    rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
      render file: 'public/404', status: :not_found
  end

  def create
    if params[:friend_id]
      @friend = User.where(profile_name: params[:friend_id]).first
      @user_friendship = current_user.user_friendships.new(friend: @friend)
    else
        flash[:error] = "Friend required"
        redirect_to root_path
    end
  end
end

Fixtures

sam:
  first_name: "sam"
  last_name: "toms"
  profile_name: "tomzie"
  email: "modernoozedesign@gmail.com"
john:
  first_name: "sam"
  last_name: "toms"
  profile_name: "sup"
  email: "modernoozedesign2@gmail.com"
  encrypted_password: "password1"
bob:
  first_name: "Bob"
  last_name: "Barker"
  profile_name: "bobb"
  email: "bob.barker@example.com"
  encrypted_password: "password1"

1 Answer

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Lisa Rossiter in your test try changing the following:

    post :create, friend_id: users(:john).id

To:

    post :create, friend_id: users(:john).profile_name

That's what it looks for in the controllers so it should fix it.