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Jon Avila
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Jon Avila
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 35,342 Points
Posted by Jon Avila
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Jon Avila
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 35,342 Points

Rspec error, "undefined local variable or method `todo_list'", while writing edit_spec.rb for rails track. Please help.

I am working through the todo list course in the rails track, and got stuck, I keep getting this error. The instructor goes very fast and jumps around sometimes with the copying and pasting, so I'm surprised I haven't gotten lost sooner. lol I swear I have everything copied down exactly as he typed it, but I'm getting an error, so I'm sure there is a typo I'm not seeing. I'm sick of figuratively banging my head against my keyboard, so here I am reaching out. This is the 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 information" do
        update_todo_list  title: "New title", 
                          description: "New description",
                          todo_list: todo_list

        todo_list.reload

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

and this is the error,

Failures:

  1) Editing todo lists updates a todo list succesfully with correct information
     Failure/Error: todo_list:todo_list
     NameError:
       undefined local variable or method `todo_list' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x000000052c99f8>
     # ./spec/features/todo_list/edit_spec.rb:25:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Please help me. Thank you.

Clair Griffiths
Clair Griffiths
10,158 Points
Clair Griffiths
Clair Griffiths
10,158 Points

Hi Jon

I think you may have missed a line in your test that creates the first todo list.

In the tutorial, right after 

describe "Editing todo lists" do

there is the line

let!(:todo_list) {TodoList.create(title: "Groceries", description: "Grocery list")}

I tried adding this into your example and it made the test pass