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

Posted by Liam Bailey
Liam Bailey
972 Points

Tests from create do not create todo_list items

HI.

I have gotten to the editing todo_lists video and I thought everything was great, so far every test had failed as it should, passed when it should - so far so good. But one of the first things said in the editing video is visiting the todo_lists index page should have todo_lists already added, and in the video it shows the grocery list todo list created presumably by the test(s) in create_spec.rb but my todo_lists index page is empty. It seems that empty is right though, as some of the tests in create spec are expecting the count of todo_lists to be zero so... I am just checking what is the score here. Thanks.

1 Answer

Martin Cornejo Saavedra
Martin Cornejo Saavedra
18,132 Points
Martin Cornejo Saavedra
Martin Cornejo Saavedra
18,132 Points

Test do use another database for testing, that's why the list you see in your app doesn't represent the one in the tests. Remember when migrating the databases, you used the command twice, on for the database and another for the testing database.

rake db:migrate   #migrates pending databases
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test   #separate database for testing
Liam Bailey
Liam Bailey
972 Points

I went into the server using -e test but I still don't see the lists that should be created by the create_spec.rb tests