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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Validating Length

Michael Jasinski
Michael Jasinski
7,427 Points
Posted by Michael Jasinski
Michael Jasinski
7,427 Points

Why is it failing for create_spec.rb

Again all of my test are failing but the app is working. Below is a list of the errors along with my code from create_spec.rb below that. I can se what lines they are on but I am doing everything the video is telling us to do.

Do I need to upgrade to RSpec3?

2 deprecation warnings total

Finished in 0.36383 seconds 4 examples, 4 failures

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:56 # Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has no description rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:37 # Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has less than 3 characters rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:18 # Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has no title rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:4 # Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Creating todo lists" do it "redirects to the todo list index page on success" do visit "/todo_lists" click_link "New Todo list" expect(page).to have_content("New Todo list")

fill_in "Title", with: "My todo list" fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today." click_button "Create todo list"

expect(page).to have_content("My todo list") end

it "displays an error when the todo list has no title" do
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)
    visit "/todo_lists"
    click_link "New Todo list"
    expect(page).to have_content("New Todo list")

fill_in "Title", with: "" fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today." click_button "Create todo list"

expect(page).to have_content('error') expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

visit "/todo_lists" expect(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.") end

it "displays an error when the todo list has less than 3 characters" do expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0) visit "/todo_lists" click_link "New Todo list" expect(page).to have_content("New Todo list ")

fill_in "Title", with: "Hi" fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today." click_button "Create todo list"

expect(page).to have_content('error') expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

visit "/todo_lists" expect(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.") end

it "displays an error when the todo list has no description" do
    expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)
    visit "/todo_lists"
    click_link "New Todo list"
    expect(page).to have_content("New Todo list
        ")

fill_in "Title", with: "Grocery list" fill_in "Description", with: "" click_button "Create todo list"

expect(page).to have_content('error') expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

visit "/todo_lists" expect(page).to_not have_content("Grocery list") end end