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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Writing Test Helpers

Jacob Horn
Jacob Horn
9,255 Points
Posted by Jacob Horn
Jacob Horn
9,255 Points

application.html.erb edits case 2 failures when running bin/rake

I have created the following div on the application.html.erb file: 

<div class="nav">
    <h1><%= link_to "Odot", root_path %> </h1>
    <ul>
    <li><%= link_to "Todo Lists", todo_lists_path %></li>

    </ul>
    <br class="clear" />
    </div>

1) Adding todo items displays the title of the todo list Failure/Error: within ("h1") do Capybara::Ambiguous: Ambiguous match, found 2 elements matching css "h1" # ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:10:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

2) Viewing todo items displays the title of the todo list Failure/Error: within ("h1") do Capybara::Ambiguous: Ambiguous match, found 2 elements matching css "h1" # ./spec/features/todo_items/index_spec.rb:11:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

The application is running fine but I don't want to move forward with these errors

2 Answers

Jeremy Gunter
Jeremy Gunter
14,235 Points
Jeremy Gunter
Jeremy Gunter
14,235 Points

It's because we added an h1 in the nav bar. What I did was wrap my yield tag in a div with the class "container" and then change the first spec in index_spec.rb to from within("h1") to within(".container h1")

Here is the whole spec:

it "displays the title of the todo list" do
    visit_todo_list(todo_list)
    within(".container h1") do
      expect(page).to have_content(todo_list.title)
    end
  end
Maximiliane Quel
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Maximiliane Quel
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Maximiliane Quel
Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 Points

The test seems to be confused whether to check the h1 in your application layout view or one in the 'app/views/todo_items/index.html.erb' and 'app/views/todo_items/new.html.erb' respectively.

Can you maybe post the it block with the line that causes the error from either the index or create spec? Also can you post the div where you yield in the application layout?