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Ruby Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails Adding State Mutual Friendship

Posted by i s
i s
83 Points

Why isn't the friendship.count changing by 2?

In the first few minutes of this video a controller test is set up to make sure the relationship count changes by 2. Mine isn't and I'm trying to work out why. Any ideas?

relationship_controller_test:

test "should successfully create 2 user relationship objects" do
    assert_difference 'Relationship.count', 2 do
      post :create, relationship: { followed_id: users(:firstname).name }
    end
  end

relationship_controller:

def create
    if params[:relationship] && params[:relationship].has_key?(:followed_id)
      # @followed = User.find(params[:relationship][:followed_id])
      @followed = User.where(name: params[:relationship][:followed_id]).first
      @relationship = Relationship.request(current_user, @followed)
      if @relationship.new_record?
        flash[:danger] = "There was a problem creating that relationship request"
      else
        flash[:success] = "Friend request sent"
      end
      redirect_to followed_path(@followed)
    else
      flash[:danger] = "Friend Required"
      redirect_to users_path
    end
  end

model/relationship:

# makes sure 2 relationships are created otherwise none are created. 
  def self.request(user1, user2)
    transaction do
      relationship1 = create!(follower: user1, followed: user2, state: 'pending')
      relationship2 = create!(follower: user2, followed: user1, state: 'requested')

      relationship1.send_request_email
      relationship1
    end
  end

I'm not sure if there's somewhere else I should be looking too?

Greatly appreciate any help working this one out!

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

What I would do is type this in your console:

tail -f log/test.log

This will show you what's happening on the test. Then run just that test (make sure you add the line number for the test) like if the test was on line 9:

bin/rspec spec/controllers/user_friendships_controller.rb:9

(Note this is the path for my files, not necessarily yours)

Then watch the test and see if it is creating new friendships or if something is going wrong. I need a bit more information from you in order to help because I'm not really sure what you're seeing.