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Ruby

Posted by chris salvi
chris salvi
7,584 Points

help reading errors on ODOT user_sessions_controller_spec

The terminal is saying I have a bunch of syntax errors on these lines, but Im not sure what I did wrong. I have fixed many syntax errors in my specs, but these ones have been befuddling.

here are the errors for reference

/Users/salvi/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:241:in `load': /Users/salvi/rprojects/odot/spec/controllers/user_sessions_controller_spec.rb:82: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting ')' (SyntaxError)
      let(:email {user.email})
                  ^
/Users/salvi/rprojects/odot/spec/controllers/user_sessions_controller_spec.rb:82: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting keyword_end
      let(:email {user.email})
                             ^
/Users/salvi/rprojects/odot/spec/controllers/user_sessions_controller_spec.rb:88: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting ')'
      let(:email{"none@found.com"}
                 ^

CODE

context "with an incorrect password" do
      let!(:user) {User.create(first_name: "Chris", last_name:"Salvi", email:"csalvi42@gmail.com", password: "treehouse1", password_confirmation: "treehouse1" )}
      let(:email) user.email
      let(:password) {"incorrect"}
      it_behaves_like "denied login"
    end

    context "with no email in existence" do
      let(:email) "none@found.com" 
      let(:password){"incorrect"}
      it_behaves_like "denied login"
    end

1 Answer

J Scott Erickson
J Scott Erickson
11,883 Points

Best guess based on the error and your code

let(:email) {user.email}

....

let(:email) {"none@found.com"}
J Scott Erickson
J Scott Erickson
11,883 Points

I can expound a bit on this now that I took a quick second the think about it, let() as a function takes two arguments. the first (:email) and the second {user.email} both need to be wrapped because how the syntax is parsed for rpsec