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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Viewing Todo Items: Part 1

JONATHAN PACHA
JONATHAN PACHA
12,039 Points

I am getting failed examples when running my rspec for the new todo_items.rb

This is my failure list:

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/index_spec.rb:5 # Viewing todo items displays no items when the todo list is empty

Randomized with seed 39175

treehouse:~/projects/odot (master *) $ bin/rspec spec/features/todo_items/index_spec.rb F

Failures:

1) Viewing todo items displays no items when the todo list is empty Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("#TodoItems#index") expected to find text "#TodoItems#index" in "TodoItems#index Find me in app/views/todo_items/index.html.erb" # ./spec/features/todo_items/index_spec.rb:10:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

here is my code for index.html.erb:

<h1>Listing todo_lists</h1>

<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Title</th> <th>Description</th> <th></th> <th></th> <th></th> </tr> </thead>

<tbody> <% @todo_lists.each do |todo_list| %> <tr id="<%= dom_id(todo_list) %>"> <td><%= todo_list.title %></td> <td><%= todo_list.description %></td> <td> <%= link_to "List Items", todo_list_todo_items_path(todo_list) %> <%= link_to 'Show', todo_list %> <%= link_to 'Edit', edit_todo_list_path(todo_list) %> <%= link_to 'Destroy', todo_list, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %> </td> </tr> <% end %> </tbody> </table>

<br>

<%= link_to 'New Todo list', new_todo_list_path %>

here is the code for index_spec.rb:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Viewing todo items" do let!(:todo_list) { TodoList.create(title: "Grocery list", description: "Groceries") } it "displays no items when the todo list is empty" do visit "/todo_lists" within "#todo_list_#{todo_list.id}" do click_link "List Items" end expect(page).to have_content("#TodoItems#index") end end

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

expected to find text "#TodoItems#index" in "TodoItems#index

Change your expectation OR change the view's content.

JONATHAN PACHA
JONATHAN PACHA
12,039 Points

Thank you very much. I'm an idiot. I cannot believe I spent that much time on that.