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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Relationships

Posted by jitendra goyal
jitendra goyal
3,752 Points

undefined method `belongs_to' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0xbb138330>

Failures:

1) TodoItem Failure/Error: it { should belongs_to(:todo_list) } NoMethodError: undefined method belongs_to' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0xbb138330> # ./spec/models/todo_item_spec.rb:4:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.00235 seconds 1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/models/todo_item_spec.rb:4 # TodoItem

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi there,

It is belong_to - delete the 's'.

A Todo Item should belong to a Todo List although a Todo Item belongs to a Todo List. It depends what context you are in.

Steve.