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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Writing Test Helpers

Brian Patterson
Brian Patterson
19,588 Points
Posted by Brian Patterson
Brian Patterson
19,588 Points

Please help.

When I run the bin/rspec spec/features/ at 2.47 I get this failure.

treehouse:~/projects/odot (master *) $ bin/rspec spec/features/ ......FFF............

Failures:

1) Viewing todo items displays the title of the todo list Failure/Error: visit_todo_list(todo_list) NoMethodError: undefined method visit_todo_list' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_4:0xb97f394c> # ./spec/features/todo_items/index_spec.rb:9:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

2) Viewing todo items displays no items when a todo list is empty Failure/Error: visit_todo_list(todo_list) NoMethodError: undefined method visit_todo_list' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_4:0xb97fa364> # ./spec/features/todo_items/index_spec.rb:16:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

3) Viewing todo items displays item content when a todo list has items Failure/Error: visit_todo_list(todo_list) NoMethodError: undefined method visit_todo_list' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_4:0xb980f868> # ./spec/features/todo_items/index_spec.rb:24:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Don't know what I have done wrong.

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Brian,

Have you got this defined inside spec/support/todo_list_helpers.rb?

You should have refactored that method out of each spec file nd into the support folder as it was being repeated in all the tests.

You should have a module called TodoListHelpers inside which you define the visit_todo_list(list) method.

Let me know how you get on.

Steve.