Write Our First Tests: Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 - Rspec Error

I'm really sorry and obviously totally naive to this type of coding but I've looked over my code for the lowercase and uppercase 'L' but I have no idea where or what needs changing :(

OK - your test is looking for the text "New Todo list" contained in the page new.html.erb - it is finding "New Todo List".

I'm sorry - I didn't make that clear. The test clicks through from index.html.erb (the first failure, remember?) with the 'New Todo List' link which routes you to the new.html.erb page.

In there, the test is looking for the text "New Todo list" which isn't there because it is currently "New Todo List". So that needs amending from 'List' to 'list'. (Or change the test from 'list' to 'List')

OK now?

YAY!!! It worked!!

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To be honest I didn't think the h1 would have been the problem and I thought it was more looking for <%= link_to type of code :/

My bad. Seriously though THANK YOU! Now give it five minutes and I'll get stuck on the next video lol. But seriously, I probably will :/

Hey - no problem!

Keep plugging away - that track presents a LOT of challenges (indeed I gave up right at the last hurdle!).

But keep going, and feel free to ask away in the forum; tag me if you want a quicker response; just add an @ symbol and it links to the Treehouse users.

Back to your issue, though. The test was looking at the content of the page. That can be anything, whether it's an h1, or whatver - the expect(page).to have_content("Steve") means precisely that - the page must contain letter-for-letter the word Steve somewhere on the page.

The erb stuff which is shown with the <%= and <% tags can cause issues, yes, but the tests for those would be a little different. You'll see! And learning the difference between the two tags is useful too. I'm not sure that's ever made clear within the course.

Best of luck - shout if you need a hand!

Steve.

In my version, for example, the link is "New Todo list" with a non-caps initial on 'list'.

My index.html.erb is like this:

<p id="notice"><%= notice %></p>

<h1>Listing Todo Lists</h1>

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Title</th>
      <th>Description</th>
      <th colspan="3"></th>
    </tr>
  </thead>

  <tbody>
    <% @todo_lists.each do |todo_list| %>
      <tr>
        <td><%= todo_list.title %></td>
        <td><%= todo_list.description %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Show', todo_list %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_todo_list_path(todo_list) %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', todo_list, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %></td>
      </tr>
    <% end %>
  </tbody>
</table>

<br>

<%= link_to 'New Todo list', new_todo_list_path %>

I changed my create_spec.rb to have the lower case 'L'

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")
  end
end

Although I'm still having the same problem :(

Yeah, still the same (I think)

bin/rspec spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb
F

Failures:

  1) Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success
     Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")
       expected to find text "New todo_list" in "New Todo List Title Description Back"
     # ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

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Failed examples:

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

Randomized with seed 59697

Yours is capitalised too - the test failure shows us that as it says it found "New Todo List Title Description Back" when it failed to find "New todo_list"

I've deleted all the deprecation warnings to make that all more readable. You can see what the errors are saying to you, that way.

Sorry Steve,

You are being very very patient and helpful. I'm a bit mashed at the moment and fasting whilst coding (something new) is never a good idea :/ That and the new Dragons cartoon from Netflix is on the TV to distract me. :P

Failures:

  1) Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success
     Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("New Todo list")
       expected to find text "New Todo list" in "New Todo List Title Description Back"
     # ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

This is the new problem. I'm determined to get this sorted so I can progress through the Rail course :)