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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

Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points
Posted by Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points

Unable to create methods in test

I am trying to create a method in test for Ruby on Rails Todo list Application. I am doing exactly same as what done in the video but I getting the below error

C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in load': C:/Users/user/Documents/odot/spec/features/todo/create_todo.rb:5: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG (SyntaxError) def "Create_todo"(options{}) ^ C:/Users/user/Documents/odot/spec/features/todo/create_todo.rb:5: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting keyword_end def "Create_todo"(options{}) ^ C:/Users/user/Documents/odot/spec/features/todo/create_todo.rb:5: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting keyword_end def "Create_todo"(options{}) ^ C:/Users/user/Documents/odot/spec/features/todo/create_todo.rb:6: syntax error, unexpected tOP_ASGN, expecting keyword_end options [:title] ||="Purvi" ^ C:/Users/user/Documents/odot/spec/features/todo/create_todo.rb:7: syntax error, unexpected tOP_ASGN, expecting keyword_end options [:details] ||="Meh" ^ C:/Users/user/Documents/odot/spec/features/todo/create_todo.rb:90: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end, expecting end-of-input from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:inblock in load_spec_files' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in each' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:inload_spec_files' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:in run' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:103:inrun' from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'

Here is my code

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Creating Todo List" do

    def "Create_todo"(options{})
        options [:title] ||="Purvi"
        options [:details] ||="Meh"      

        visit "/todos"
        click_link "New Todo"
        expect(page).to have_content("New Todo")

        fill_in "Title", with: options[:title]
        fill_in "Details", with: options[:details]
        click_button "Create Todo"      
    end

    it "Redirects to the todos index page on success" do
        Create_todo
        expect(page).to have_content("Purvi")
    end

    it "Fails if there is no todos title" do
        expect(Todo.count).to eq(0) 
        visit "/todos"
        click_link "New Todo"
        expect(page).to have_content("New Todo")

        fill_in "Title", with: ""
        fill_in "Details", with: "Meh"
        click_button "Create Todo"

        expect(page).to have_content("error")
        expect(Todo.count).to eq(0) 
        visit "/todos"
        expect(page).to_not have_content("Meh")

    end

    it "Fails if the todos title is less than 3 characters" do
        expect(Todo.count).to eq(0) 
        visit "/todos"
        click_link "New Todo"
        expect(page).to have_content("New Todo")

        fill_in "Title", with: "hi"
        fill_in "Details", with: "Meh"
        click_button "Create Todo"

        expect(page).to have_content("error")
        expect(Todo.count).to eq(0) 
        visit "/todos"
        expect(page).to_not have_content("Meh")

    end

    it "Fails if the todos has no details" do
        expect(Todo.count).to eq(0) 
        visit "/todos"
        click_link "New Todo"
        expect(page).to have_content("New Todo")

        fill_in "Title", with: "Grocery"
        fill_in "Details", with: ""
        click_button "Create Todo"

        expect(page).to have_content("error")
        expect(Todo.count).to eq(0) 
        visit "/todos"
        expect(page).to_not have_content("Grocery")

    end

    it "Fails if the todos details is less than 3 characters" do
        expect(Todo.count).to eq(0) 
        visit "/todos"
        click_link "New Todo"
        expect(page).to have_content("New Todo")

        fill_in "Title", with: "getta"
        fill_in "Details", with: "M"
        click_button "Create Todo"

        expect(page).to have_content("error")
        expect(Todo.count).to eq(0) 
        visit "/todos"
        expect(page).to_not have_content("getta")

    end
end
Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points
Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points

Jason Seifer Can you please help. Is it because of the rspec version ? I have been stuck on this for quite a while now.

1 Answer

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points
Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

You can't do 

def "Create_todo"(options{})

You can't type the method name as a string. It should probably be:

def create_todo(options{})

and then change references to that method in your tests accordingly. But I'm not sure if you can do (options{}) and I can't be bothered to check right now. Maybe you can check that yourself or someone else will chime in.