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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Write Our First Tests

Posted by jitendra goyal
jitendra goyal
3,752 Points

undefined method `visit' for RSpec

Failures:

1) Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success Failure/Error: visit "/todo_lists"

 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `visit' for #<RSpec::ExampleGroups::CreatingTodoLists:0xb9ef8d14>
 # ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.00106 seconds (files took 0.14891 seconds to load) 1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:4 # Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

Can you post your sources? (the create_spec.rb and spec_helper.rb files) Were there any errors when you tried to install Capybara?

1 Answer

Brent Forwood
Brent Forwood
18,999 Points
Brent Forwood
Brent Forwood
18,999 Points

I had the same problem. I added

require 'rails_helper'

in create_spec.rb and it worked for me. Here's a link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15148585/undefined-method-visit-when-using-rspec-and-capybara-in-rails