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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Creating Methods in Tests

Charles Harpke
Charles Harpke
33,986 Points
Posted by Charles Harpke
Charles Harpke
33,986 Points

Testing error

in testing here is the error that is generated:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:17 # Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success
rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:46 # Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has no description
rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:58 # Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has no description
rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:22 # Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has no title
rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:34 # Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has a title less than 3 characters

here is my code:

require 'spec_helper'

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

    visit "/todo_lists"
    click_link "New Todo list"
    expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")

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

  it "redirects to the todo list index page on success" do
    create_todo_list
    expect(page).to have_content("My todo list")
  end

  it "displays an error when the todo list has no title" do
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

    create_todo_list title: ""

    expect(page).to have_content("error")
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

    visit "/todo_lists"
    expect(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.")
  end

  it "displays an error when the todo list has a title less than 3 characters" do
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

    create_todo_list title: "Hi"

    expect(page).to have_content("error")
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

    visit "/todo_lists"
    expect(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.")
  end

  it "displays an error when the todo list has no description" do
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

    create_todo_list title: "Grocery list", description: ""

    expect(page).to have_content("error")
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

    visit "/todo_lists"
    expect(page).to_not have_content("Grocery list")
  end

  it "displays an error when the todo list has no description" do
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

    create_todo_list title: "Grocery list", description: "Food"

    expect(page).to have_content("error")
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

    visit "/todo_lists"
    expect(page).to_not have_content("Grocery list")
  end
end

1 Answer

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

First of all, these are not full error messages for your specs. These are only the results. Please check your terminal, the full error messages that fully explain your issues, should be somewhere higher, above the lines you pasted here. Also, you could push your project to giyhub and link it here.