Should belong_to(:user) test still fails

can you paste in your code from the test and the model (then i can compare it with mine)

user_friendship_test.rb: require 'test_helper'

class UserFriendshipTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
    should belong_to(:user)
    should belong_to(:friend)
end

user_friendship.rb:

class UserFriendship < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
    belongs_to :friend
end

So in my user_friendship.rb I have

belongs_to :friend, class_name: 'User', foreign_key: 'friend_id'

granted, that may come in a later video. What video are you on. Can you give me the specific link, like:

Library > Programming > __?? > ____?? etc

Library > Programming > Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails > Creating Friendships > Testing Friendships, and the part I'm talking about it from 2:05 - 3:55. Where his test passes, I get the "Expected UserFriendship to have a belongs_to association called user (UserFriendship does not have a user_id foreign key.)" failure message.

The whole failure message is:

1) Failure: test: UserFriendship should belong to user. (UserFriendshipTest) [/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/shoulda-context-1.1.4/lib/shoulda/context/context.rb:339]: Expected UserFriendship to have a belongs_to association called user (UserFriendship does not have a user_id foreign key.)

To me sounds like your database doesn't have something right. Under that video, you can download the source files and compare your migration file with the migration Jason did in the video. Sometimes it's something as simple as a pluralized word or a missing colon. This part of the error: "UserFriendship does not have a user_id foreign key." is what seems to be key here.

Unfortunately I don't have enough experience to exactly pinpoint your error.

Ok. I'll check it out. Thanks!

Ok, so when I try to run rake db:migrate, I get this error:

An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

SQLite3::SQLException: table "user_friendships" already exists: CREATE TABLE "user_friendships" ("id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, "user_id" integer, "friend_id" integer, "created_at" datetime NOT NULL, "updated_at" datetime NOT NULL) /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/sqlite3-1.3.7/lib/sqlite3/database.rb:91:in `initialize'

you can run rake db:setup and it will redo your database, but you will lose anything you had stored in there.

Ok. Awesome. Thank you!

I reset my entire database, and now I get three errors all saying that it can't find the table 'statuses'