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Ruby

Posted by Thomas Slater
Thomas Slater
5,094 Points

Errors in Scoping for Ruby on Rails website

I thought I was following the same code as the video, but I'm getting a weird set of errors:

ruby -Itest test/functional/profiles_controller_test.rb
test/functional/profiles_controller_test.rb:26: syntax error, unexpected $end, e
xpecting keyword_end

and here's the code, which I thought was identical to Jason's in the profile_controller_test

test "only shows the correct user's statuses" do
get :show, id: users(:baggins).profile_name
assigns(:statuses).each do |status|
  assert_equal users(:baggins), status.user
end
end

but when I add an extra end in there, I get 3 errors, namely they are like this:

  1) Error:
test_only_shows_the_correct_user's_statuses(ProfilesControllerTest):
NoMethodError: undefined method `Statuses' for #<User:0x4ec7ce0>

2 Answers

Thomas Slater
Thomas Slater
5,094 Points
Thomas Slater
Thomas Slater
5,094 Points

Ok, I fixed it. I knew I capitalized the wrong word, I just couldn't find which one. Alas, it was in the profile controller: @user.Statuses.all instead of @user.statuses.all. The weird triple end remains, but the code passes the test so I guess I shouldn't complain.

Drake Ramming
Drake Ramming
5,373 Points
Drake Ramming
Drake Ramming
5,373 Points

The wierd triple end remains

There should be three 'ends' on the final 3 lines of the test. Ensure you are properly nesting your code blocks, it makes the code much easier to debug and helps avoid syntax errors.

class ProfilesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
    # get show, render 404, variable assigned test cases

   test "only shows the current user's statuses" do
    get :show, id: users(:jason).profile_name
    assigns(:statuses).each do |status|
      assert_equal users(:jason), status.user
    end    #closes assigns(:statuses) .each do block
  end    # closes the "only shows the current user's statuses" test block    
end     #closes the ProfilesControllerTest class