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Jacob Smith
10,926 PointsFirst Rspec Test: unexpected end-of-input, expecting keyword_end
Up to this point I don't know where I went wrong. This is the second watching these videos and I am still having issues.
What am I doing wrong?
Jacob Smith
10,926 PointsI am currently using Sublime Text 2. What would be the best way to share the code file?
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsCopy and paste it inside a of a block with 3 backticks as shown in the markdown cheatsheet.
 ```ruby
[code goes here]
 ```
Jacob Smith
10,926 PointsI ran this on the command line:
bin/rspec spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb
/home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in `load': /home/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:8: syntax error, unexpected end-of-input, expecting keyword_end (SyntaxError)
end
from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in `block in load_spec_files'
from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in `each'
from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in `load_spec_files'
from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:in `run'
from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:103:in `run'
from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'
Jacob Smith
10,926 PointsOkay. I was able to find out my syntax error. You were right I was missing an 'end' in my ruby code. But now, due to the updated versions of rspec (I think) I received this message.
Deprecation Warnings:
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RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup#example is deprecated and will be removed
in RSpec 3. There are a few options for what you can use instead:
- rspec-core's DSL methods (`it`, `before`, `after`, `let`, `subject`, etc)
now yield the example as a block argument, and that is the recommended
way to access the current example from those contexts.
- The current example is now exposed via `RSpec.current_example`,
which is accessible from any context.
- If you can't update the code at this call site (e.g. because it is in
an extension gem), you can use this snippet to continue making this
method available in RSpec 2.99 and RSpec 3:
RSpec.configure do |c|
c.expose_current_running_example_as :example
end
(Called from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/capybara-2.1.0/lib/capybara/rspec.rb:20:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>')
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I understand that I can run the suggested code, but not really understanding what is happening? Can you help explain?
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsI meant the .rb file that is causing the error, not the error output.
(The error means there is a syntax error in the code you wrote. Every 'do' block (or 'def', 'class', or 'module') needs a corresponding 'end' at the signify the end of the code block.)
Jacob Smith
10,926 PointsThis first code is in my spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Creating todo lists" do
it "redirects to the todo list index page on success" do
visit "/todo_lists"
click_link "New Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("New Todo List")
fill_in "Title", with: "My todo list"
fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today."
click_button "Create Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("My todo list")
end
it "displays an error when the todo list has no title" do
expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)
visit "/todo_lists"
click_link "New Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("New Todo List")
fill_in "Title", with: ""
fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today."
click_button "Create Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("error")
expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)
visit "/todo_lists"
expecte(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.")
end
it "displays an error when the todo list has a title less than 3 characters" do
expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)
visit "/todo_lists"
click_link "New Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("New Todo List")
fill_in "Title", with: "hi"
fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today."
click_button "Create Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("error")
expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)
visit "/todo_lists"
expecte(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.")
end
end
In my app/concerns/todo_list.rb file
class TodoList < ActiveRecord::Base
validates :title, presence: true
validates :title, length: { minimum: 3 }
end
As of now I should have no errors, since I have been following the videos closely, but it says I have two failures on lines 17 and 36.
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsSeth Kroger
56,413 PointsFrom the error message accidentally left off an 'end' statement to one of your blocks so they aren't nested properly. Go ahead and post the code file causing that error so we can help find it.