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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Cleaning Up Our View

gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points

Failure/Error: click_link "Mark Complete" ActionView::MissingTemplate:

When I click mark complete in the grocery list page I get this error.

Template is missing Missing template todo_items/complete, application/complete with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in: * "/Users/jerryblady/projects/odot/app/views"

In terminal, the rspec for complete_spec is as follows..

Failures:

1) Completing todo items is successful when marking a single item complete Failure/Error: click_link "Mark Complete" ActionView::MissingTemplate: Missing template todo_items/complete, application/complete with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in: * "/Users/jerryblady/projects/odot/app/views" # ./spec/features/todo_items/complete_spec.rb:11:in block (3 levels) in <top (required)>' # ./spec/features/todo_items/complete_spec.rb:10:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Here is the complete_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

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

  it "is successful when marking a single item complete" do
    expect(todo_item.completed_at).to be_nil
    visit_todo_list todo_list
    within dom_id_for(todo_item) do
      click_link "Mark Complete"
    end
    todo_item.reload
    expect(todo_item.completed_at).to_not be_nil
  end

  context "with completed items" do
    let!(:completed_todo_item) { todo_list.todo_items.create(content: "Eggs", completed_at: 5.minutes.ago) }

    it "shows completed items as complete" do
      visit_todo_list todo_list
      within dom_id_for(completed_todo_item) do
        expect(page).to have_content(completed_todo_item.completed_at)
      end
    end

    it "does not give the option to mark complete" do
      visit_todo_list todo_list
      within dom_id_for(completed_todo_item) do
        expect(page).to_not have_content("Mark Complete")
      end
    end
  end
end

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

The test click a link. The link is made using link_to helper. Does that helper have method: :patch in it in your code? Look at 2:29 in the video. If it does, then it means you are not redirecting wnywhere with this action in the controller.

gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points

I see that there..

<h1><%= @todo_list.title %></h1>

<table class="todo_items"> <table class="todo_items"> <thead> <tr> <th width="25%">Completed?</th> <th width="65%">Content</th> <th width="10%">Functions</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <% @todo_list.todo_items.each do |todo_item| %> <tr id="<%= dom_id(todo_item) %>"> <td> <% if todo_item.completed? %> <%= todo_item.completed_at %> <% else %> <%= link_to "Mark Complete", complete_todo_list_todo_item_path(todo_item), method: :patch %> <% end %> </td> <td><%= todo_item.content %></td> <td> <%= link_to "Edit", edit_todo_list_todo_item_path(todo_item) %> <%= link_to "Delete", todo_list_todo_item_path(todo_item), method: :delete, data: { confirm: "Are you sure?" } %> </td> </tr> <% end %> </tbody> </table>

<p> <%= link_to "New Todo Item", new_todo_list_todo_item_path %> </p>

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

OK, and how does your todo item controller look like?

gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points

ah, the error was in the controller there..