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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Editing Todo Items

Posted by neil patel
neil patel
Courses Plus Student 89 Points

Getting 3 failures editing to_do lists

nearly getting the hang of this but can't work this one out

something relating to the ("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") line ?

any ideas

git https://github.com/neilp666/todo2015

Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with not enough content (FAILED - 1) is unsuccessful with no content (FAILED - 2) is successful with valid content (FAILED - 3)

Failures:

1) Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with not enough content Failure/Error: within("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") do NameError: undefined local variable or method todo_item' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007fb8b56a33b0> # ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:46:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

2) Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with no content Failure/Error: within("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") do NameError: undefined local variable or method todo_item' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007fb8b85e9728> # ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:32:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

3) Editing todo lists is successful with valid content Failure/Error: within("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") do NameError: undefined local variable or method todo_item' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007fb8b8721398> # ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:17:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.52455 seconds 3 examples, 3 failures

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:44 # Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with not enough content rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:30 # Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with no content rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:15 # Editing todo lists is successful with valid content

Randomized with seed 16149

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1 Answer

Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points
Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points

Hi Neil,

You need to set a todo item in your spec just as you did a todo list. E.g.

let!(:todo_item) { todo_list.todo_items.create(content: "Milk") }