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

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points
Posted by Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

Running Tests Problem With "edit_spec.rb" in "Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4."

Hi everyone!

So I doing the Editing todo items video with Jason Seifer. and at about 2:14 in the video to the left he runs a test for edit_spec.rb, which turns out to be an error for him.

But with me it gives me this 13,298 line answer on what I got wrong and stuff that I have no idea on what it's saying.

Here is my edit_spec.rb code. And here is the console output.

Thanks so much for reading!

2 Answers

Nick Fuller
Nick Fuller
9,027 Points
Nick Fuller
Nick Fuller
9,027 Points

Hi Chase!

Segmentation faults are always super fun! That's ruby failing... your code "should" work, but apparently not with ruby 2.1

Are you using RVM? If so, I would try with the latest version of ruby 2.0.X and add a .ruby-version to the root of your rails directory with the 2.0.x in it.

Either that or a quick little google search pulled up this person having a similar issue: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-dev/issues/52

So maybe refactor this

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

into something where you're not re-assigning the value of :todo_list?

maybe replace it with

before(:each) do
  @todo_list = TodoList.create(title: "Grocery list", description: "Groceries")
  @todo_list.todo_items.create(content: "Milk")
end

Although it will get a little funky if you have any unique constraints on either of those models. Have you worked with factory girl yet?