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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Editing Todo Lists

gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points
Posted by gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points

Random Failure..

Failures:

1) Editing todo lists updates a todo list succesfully with correct info Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("Todo list was succesfully updated") expected to find text "Todo list was succesfully updated" in "Todo list was successfully updated. Title: New title Description: New description Edit | Back" # ./spec/features/todo_lists/edit_spec.rb:29:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

my code:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Editing todo lists" do  
    def update_todo_list(options={})
        options[:title] ||= "My todo list"
        options[:description] ||= "This is my todo list."

        todo_list = options[:todo_list]

        visit "/todo_lists"
        within "#todo_list_#{todo_list.id}" do 
        click_link "Edit"
        end

        fill_in "Title", with:  options[:title]
        fill_in "Description", with: options[:description]
        click_button "Update Todo list"
    end

    it "updates a todo list succesfully with correct info" do 
        todo_list = TodoList.create(title: "Groceries", description: "Grocery list.")
        update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list, 
                         title: "New title", 
                         description: "New description"


        todo_list.reload

        expect(page).to have_content("Todo list was succesfully updated")
        expect(todo_list.title).to eq("New title")
        expect(todo_list.description).to eq("New description")
    end
end

<h1>Listing todo_lists</h1>

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Title</th>
      <th>Description</th>
      <th colspan="3"></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 'Show', todo_list %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_todo_list_path(todo_list) %></td>
        <td><%= 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 %>

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

It's all in the error message. Your expectation and the actual flash message are different by just one character:

Todo list was succesfully updated

Todo list was successfully updated

gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points
gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points

thank you as always.. i must have looked over that for the past 20 minutes..

ugh!

:)

gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points
gerald blady
gerald blady
9,052 Points

it has to be something simple.. i'm looking at this over and over and can't figure it out.