Writing Tests > Validating Format

Sorry for reviving a bit of a dead thread, but i figured i could help Nick out maybe.

Make sure your message in user.rb and user_test.rb are EXACTLY the same, punctuation and all included. Its what solved it for me.

• John

Hi Cassidy,

Try changing this:

                      :with => /a-zA-Z0-9_-/,

To this:

                      :with => /\A[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+\Z/,

Jason, just gave that a shot, but I'm still getting the same error.

Very weird, Cassidy. Can you zip up your project and email it to help@teamtreehouse.com and I'll take a look?

Cassidy, how did you post screenshots of your code like that?

@Robert These forums use Markdown for syntax highlighting. Look at this thread to learn how to format your code to display properly in these forums. Hope that helps!

The forums uses a thing called Markdown which lets you format your text. So to make your code snippets display the way I did it in my original post, your just indent each line. What I did was paste my comment into my text editor and tabbed my code snippets since you can't really do it that easily in these text areas on Treehouse.

There's a bunch of syntax documentation here.

Also, the answer to my original issue was the message in my user.rb file needed a period at the end of it.

I was wondering if anyone figured out the answer to Cassidy's question because I am having the same issue. I would post the images but they won't show for some reason and it's exactly like Cassidy's code.

Hey Nick, can you email your treebook app to help@teamtreehouse.com and I'll take a look?

I'm getting the exact same issue. I've checked the formatting on the both the test and the user model and it's identical (I copied and pasted).

Here's the project if anyone has a second to check:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33057988/treebook.zip

Hey Tom Ellis , remove the exclamation point on line 38 -- that is what's causing the test to fail (we are looking to make sure the error is present).

Awesome, thanks.

Had a similar issue, resolved it by using a different email address and profile_name.

hey guys, still no answer to this question?

having same problem can someone help? Thanks in advance here is my code and still getting failure code

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
# :confirmable, :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
     :  recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

# Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model
attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me,
                :first_name, :last_name, :profile_name
# attr_accessible :title, :body

validates :first_name, presence: true

validates :last_name, presence: true

validates :profile_name, presence: true,
                         uniqueness: true,
                         format: {
                            with: /^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$/,
                            message: "Must be formatted correctly."
                         }


has_many :statuses

def full_name
  first_name + " " + last_name
  end
end

my failure code

test_a_user_should_have_a_correctly_formatted_profile_name(UserTest) [test/unit/user_test.rb:44]: Failed assertion, no message given.

this is line 44

assert user.valid?

Hey Robert Borsey I think we need to see more of your code to figure out what's up. Can you zip it up and email it to help@teamtreehouse.com?

yes i emailed it 11/15/13 it should be there if not let me know so i can email again thanks for the support

Hey Robert Borsey I responded to that with two files fixed. If you still have problems drop me a line.

Thanks Jason that fixed the problem :)

Thank you again for the support.