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Ruby Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails Building the Friendship UI Creating the Friendship Controller

Posted by armen
armen
3,753 Points

undefined method 'authenticate' for nil:NilClass

Hi,

I'm unable to get past the "should get redirected to the login page" test. I've already included resources :user_friendships in my routes and have created a "new" view and action.

Here is my code:

My user_friendships_controller_test.rb:

require 'test_helper'

class UserFriendshipsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase

    context "#new" do
        context "when not logged in" do
            should "get redirected to the login page" do
                get :new
                assert_response :redirect
            end
        end
    end
end

user_friendship.rb:

class UserFriendship < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
    belongs_to :friend, class_name: "User", foreign_key: "friend_id"





    private

        def friendship_params
            params.require(:user).permit(:user_id, :friend_id, :friend)
        end
end

the exact error I'm getting:

  1) Error:
UserFriendshipsControllerTest#test_: #new when not logged in should get redirected to the login page. :
NoMethodError: undefined method `authenticate!' for nil:NilClass
    test/controllers/user_friendships_controller_test.rb:8:in `block (3 levels) in <class:UserFriendshipsControllerTest>'

1 runs, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors, 0 skips

Thanks!

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

We need to see your UserFriendshipController.