NoMethodError: undefined method `state' for nil:NilClass

Question

I'm following the accepting friendships tutorial in the setting up the state machine stage and ran into an error:

1) Error:
UserFriendshipsControllerTest#test: #accept should update the state to accepted. :
NoMethodError: undefined method `state' for nil:NilClass
test/controllers/user_friendships_controller_test.rb:190:in `block (2 levels) in
<class:UserFriendshipsControllerTest>'

The error should be that the state is pending rather than accepted, but instead it is saying that the state method is undefined. Here is the test that started causing the issue:

should "update the state to accepted" do
    assert_equal 'accepted', @user_friendship.state
end

I did get a deprecation warning on conditions in my user model previously and updated it to a scope block, and thought that may have been the issue. However, when I changed it back to conditions I still receive the same error.

Here are the relationships in my user model in case this helps:

has_many :statuses
has_many :user_friendships
has_many :friends, through: :user_friendships, 
                 conditions: { user_friendships: { state: 'accepted' } }

has_many :pending_user_friendships, class_name: 'UserFriendship', 
                                                             foreign_key: :user_id, 
                                                             conditions: { state: 'pending' }

has_many :pending_friends, through: :pending_user_friendships, source: :friend

Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1 · 2013-10-22T04:17:22Z

October 22, 2013 4:17am

Figured it out!! It was a typo on my part... Basically my end tag for the context that included "update state to accepted" test was in the wrong place. Here is the updated version that works now:

context "when logged in" do
  setup do
    @user_friendship = create(:pending_user_friendship, user: users(:jake))
    sign_in users(:jake)
    put :accept, id: @user_friendship
    @user_friendship.reload
  end

  should "assign a user friendship" do
    assert assigns(:user_friendship)
    assert_equal @user_friendship, assigns(:user_friendship)
  end

  should "update the state to accepted" do
    assert_equal 'accepted', @user_friendship.state
  end

end

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NoMethodError: undefined method `state' for nil:NilClass

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