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Christopher Quinn
9,943 PointsI'm having issues in the early stages of the build a todo list application videos.
I'm following along with the video and I'm running the command
bin/rspec spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb
and I get this message:
Finished in 0.31636 seconds 1 example, 1 failure
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:4 # Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success
I have it typed exactly as it is in the video. Open to ideas here.
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")
end
end
Christopher Quinn
9,943 PointsWell this is what I get for not scrolling up. I guess I should make myself some coffee when I wait for everyone to go to bed before working on this stuff.. Thanks for pointing out that i left information out of this.
Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")
expected to find text "New todo_list" in "New Todo List Title Description Back"
# ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:10:in create_todo_list'
# ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:18:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Creating todo lists" do
def create_todo_list(options={})
options[:title] ||= "My todo list"
options[:description] ||= "This is my todo list."
visit "/todo_lists"
click_link "New Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")
fill_in "Title", with: options[:title]
fill_in "Description", with: options[:description]
click_button "Create Todo list"
end
it "redirects to the todo list index page on success" do
create_todo_list
expect(page).to have_content("My todo list")
end
Updated the code, error message won't match original post.
1 Answer
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsOK, so in this case you should run the rails server and see for yourself what shows up after clicking that link. If it's what you expected, modify the test expectation from expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list") to expect(page).to have_content("New Todo List") on line 10. You probably modified the header in the new action view at some point. By default it was "New todo_list" and you got "New Todo List". Notice that this error tells you everything. It tells you what string it expected and what was the actual full content of the visited page: in "New Todo List Title Description Back"
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsYou can make sure by checking the app/views/todo_list/new.html.erb file.
Christopher Quinn
9,943 PointsSometimes all it takes is an extra pair of eyes. Thank you!
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsNo worries, I've seen a lot of people having many different problems at every single stage of this course. This happens a lot when you're starting :)
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsMaciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsThis is not the full error message. There has to be more before that. It says exactly what caused the error. Without this we can only guess the reason.