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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Writing Tests Fixtures

Andrew Rice
Andrew Rice
2,233 Points
Posted by Andrew Rice
Andrew Rice
2,233 Points

NoMethodError on tests

I am at the end of the fixtures video, and I get this error:

Error:UserTest#test_user_should_have_a_unqiue_profile_name:
NoMethodError: undefined method 'empty?' for ["has already been taken"]:Array
   test/models/user_test.rb:30:in 'block in <class:UserTest>'

And here is my UserTest class:

require 'test_helper'

class UserTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  # test "the truth" do
  #   assert true
  # end
  test "a user should enter a first name" do
    user = User.new
    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:first_name].empty?
  end

    test "a user should enter a last name" do
    user = User.new
    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:last_name].empty?
  end

    test "a user should enter a profile name" do
    user = User.new
    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:profile_name].empty?
  end

  test "user should have a unique profile name" do
    user = User.new
    user.profile_name = users(:andrew).profile_name

    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:profile_name].emtpy?
  end

end

2 Answers

Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
43,828 Points
Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
43,828 Points

Hey Andrew,

You have a typo on this line:

 assert !user.errors[:profile_name].emtpy?