Should my "models/status.rb" file be named the same as my "fixtures/statuses.yml" file?

Hey Adam, Thanks for your reply. Its actually an error:

1) Failure: test_a_user_should_enter_a_unique_profile_name(UserTest) [test/unit/user_test.rb:32]: Failed assertion, no message given.

4 tests, 8 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

test/unit/user_test.rb:

require 'test_helper'

class UserTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  test "a user should enter a first name" do 
    user = User.new
    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:first_name].empty?
  end

  test "a user should enter a last name" do 
    user = User.new
    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:last_name].empty?
  end

  test "a user should enter a profile name" do 
    user = User.new
    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:profile_name].empty?
  end

  test "a user should enter a unique profile name" do 
    user = User.new
    user.first_name = "Colin"
    user.last_name = "Stodd"
    user.email = "cbstodd@gmail"
    user.profile_name = "cbstodd"
    user.password = "password"
    user.password_confirmation = "password"

    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:profile_name].empty?
  end
end

--UPDATE -- I changed the passwords to correctly coincide with the users.yml file. --

test/fixtures/users.yml:

colin:
    first_name: "Colin"
    last_name: "Stodd"
    email: "cbstodd@gmail"
    profile_name: "cbstodd"
    password: "password"
    password_confirmation: "password"

app/model/user.rb:

attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me,
                  :first_name, :last_name, :profile_name

  validates :first_name, presence: true
  validates :last_name, presence: true
  validates :profile_name, presence: true,
            uniqueness: true 

  has_many :statuses

  def full_name
    first_name + " " + last_name 
  end
end

Thanks for your help again Adam. I changed the passwords and made the appropriate corrections to the code and I'm getting 4 errors:

1) Error: test_a_user_should_enter_a_first_name(UserTest): ActiveRecord::Fixture::FormatError: a YAML error occurred parsing /home/colin/ruby/rails/treebook/test/fixtures/users.yml. Please note that YAML must be consistently indented using spaces. Tabs are not allowed. Please have a look at http://www.yaml.org/faq.html The exact error was: Psych::SyntaxError: (<unknown>): found character that cannot start any token while scanning for the next token at line 2 column 1

2) Error: test_a_user_should_enter_a_last_name(UserTest): ActiveRecord::Fixture::FormatError: a YAML error occurred parsing /home/colin/ruby/rails/treebook/test/fixtures/users.yml. Please note that YAML must be consistently indented using spaces. Tabs are not allowed. Please have a look at http://www.yaml.org/faq.html The exact error was: Psych::SyntaxError: (<unknown>): found character that cannot start any token while scanning for the next token at line 2 column 1

3) Error: test_a_user_should_enter_a_profile_name(UserTest): ActiveRecord::Fixture::FormatError: a YAML error occurred parsing /home/colin/ruby/rails/treebook/test/fixtures/users.yml. Please note that YAML must be consistently indented using spaces. Tabs are not allowed. Please have a look at http://www.yaml.org/faq.html The exact error was: Psych::SyntaxError: (<unknown>): found character that cannot start any token while scanning for the next token at line 2 column 1

4) Error: test_a_user_should_enter_a_unique_profile_name(UserTest): ActiveRecord::Fixture::FormatError: a YAML error occurred parsing /home/colin/ruby/rails/treebook/test/fixtures/users.yml. Please note that YAML must be consistently indented using spaces. Tabs are not allowed. Please have a look at http://www.yaml.org/faq.html The exact error was: Psych::SyntaxError: (<unknown>): found character that cannot start any token while scanning for the next token at line 2 column 1

4 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 4 errors, 0 skips

so it now looks like:

  test "a user should enter a unique profile name" do 
    user = User.new
    user.profile_name = users(:colin).profile_name

    assert !user.save
    assert !user.errors[:profile_name].empty?
  end
end

https://github.com/cbstodd/treebook

Sorry and thank you Adam, you have been awesome!

Not sure when you checked Github, but it should be pushed up by now. For some reason I accidently deleted (didn't save) that file as I was moving from work to home. But it is in there now.... Problem still persisted.

Neverthless, I did notice in the Instructors notes that there is something that addresses this problem. it says to just take out the "password" and "password_confirmation" lines from the users.yml file. Furthermore, I also had to delete the "profile_name" line.

So I guess this problem has existed, just not sure why this is the only workaround.

I would like to see Treehouse use Rspec instead of this testing method. I Think I may just go back to Michael Hartl's tutorials. Was hoping this would shed some light onto the TDD side of things.