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Nelly Nelly
Nelly Nelly
7,134 Points
Posted by Nelly Nelly
Nelly Nelly
7,134 Points

todo_list_controller_spec.rb issues....

Hi everybody , Hi Steve Hunter ,

i've downloaded the file from Jason's project, I don't know why I didnt have it... Well, lets start step by step maybe... If needed here is my git repo https://github.com/knopfler81/odot/tree/user_auth (updated with the current issue)

todo_list_controller_spec.rb

describe "GET index" do
    it "assigns all todo_lists as @todo_lists" do
      todo_list = TodoList.create! valid_attributes
      controller.stub(:require_user).and_return(true)
      get :index, {}, valid_session
      assigns(:todo_lists).should eq([todo_list])
    end
 end
I had depreciations errors and I found out on google that the syntax has changed (again lol) and now it's better to write:
  allow(controller).to receive(:require_user).and_return(true)

instead of

controller.stub(:require_user).and_return(true)

BUT

when I run rspec spec/controller/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb:15 ( it is on line 15 ;) )

I have this horrible thing:

TodoListsController
  GET index
    assigns all todo_lists as @todo_lists (FAILED - 1)

Failures:

  1) TodoListsController GET index assigns all todo_lists as @todo_lists
     Failure/Error: assigns(:todo_lists).should eq([todo_list])

       expected: [#<TodoList id: 6, title: "MyString", description: "My Description", created_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15", updated_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15">]
            got: #<ActiveRecord::Relation [#<TodoList id: 1, title: "MyString", description: "My Description", created...scription: "My Description", created_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15", updated_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15">]>

       (compared using ==)

       Diff:
       @@ -1,2 +1,37 @@
       -[#<TodoList id: 6, title: "MyString", description: "My Description", created_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15", updated_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15">]
       +[#<TodoList:0x007fc77886c3f0
       +  id: 1,
       +  title: "MyString",
       +  description: "My Description",
       +  created_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:29:32 UTC +00:00,
       +  updated_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:29:32 UTC +00:00>,
       + #<TodoList:0x007fc77886c008
       +  id: 2,
       +  title: "MyString",
       +  description: "My Description",
       +  created_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:33:43 UTC +00:00,
       +  updated_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:33:43 UTC +00:00>,
       + #<TodoList:0x007fc77885fe70
       +  id: 3,
       +  title: "MyString",
       +  description: "My Description",
       +  created_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:35:07 UTC +00:00,
       +  updated_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:35:07 UTC +00:00>,
       + #<TodoList:0x007fc77885fba0
       +  id: 4,
       +  title: "MyString",
       +  description: "My Description",
       +  created_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:37:16 UTC +00:00,
       +  updated_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:37:16 UTC +00:00>,
       + #<TodoList:0x007fc77885f718
       +  id: 5,
       +  title: "MyString",
       +  description: "My Description",
       +  created_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:38:07 UTC +00:00,
       +  updated_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:38:07 UTC +00:00>,
       + #<TodoList:0x007fc77885f3a8
       +  id: 6,
       +  title: "MyString",
       +  description: "My Description",
       +  created_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:43:15 UTC +00:00,
       +  updated_at: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:43:15 UTC +00:00>]

     # ./spec/controllers/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb:19:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Au secours

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Au secours!

Yes, you've compared a relation to an instance. See?:

expected: [#<TodoList id: 6, title: "MyString", description: "My Description", created_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15", updated_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15">]
            got: #<ActiveRecord::Relation [#<TodoList id: 1, title: "MyString", description: "My Description", created...scription: "My Description", created_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15", updated_at: "2016-08-08 19:43:15">]>

That's also compared the wrong id.

Downloading projects mid-Rails is a massive chore - it takes longer fixing stuff than writing it from scratch. But I don't think we're there with this. Here, your test expected to see a Todo list with an id of 6 a title of "MyString", a description of "My Description" etc.

It didn't find that. It got a Relation with a wrong id but correct strings. So you're not far away here.

Do you understand why I'm explaining the errors like that? Does that help move towards a solution?

Steve.

1 Answer

Nelly Nelly
Nelly Nelly
7,134 Points
Nelly Nelly
Nelly Nelly
7,134 Points

Hi again Steve Hunter,

Actually when I said that I've downladed from Jason, I mean I only copied the two single files I was missing. todo_lists_controller_spec.rb and todo_list_items_controller_spec.rb

Hummmm and I don't know why but I didn't change anything in the code. BUT your reflexion made me think to an old case....where I spend hours finding the solution.... and that was... the same. So, I've deleted my development.sqlite3 and test.sqlite3 files... ran rake db:migrate, rake db:test:prepare, rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test

and now it's green :)

I will sleep a bit now and back into the code tomorrow :) Thanks again !