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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Relationships

Fábio Tavares da Costa
Fábio Tavares da Costa
11,985 Points
Posted by Fábio Tavares da Costa
Fábio Tavares da Costa
11,985 Points

Coding around warnings

Not a question. I saw quite a few similar problems reported. So, I'm sharing my working version.

My specs: Treehouse VM, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

treehouse:~/projects/odot (master *) $ pwd
/home/treehouse/projects/odot
treehouse:~/projects/odot (master *) $ uname --all
Linux treehouse 3.8.0-44-generic #66~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 04:04:23 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

To work around the first set of deprecation errors exposed by...

treehouse:~/projects/odot (master *) $ bin/rspec spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb 
..

Finished in 0.44521 seconds
2 examples, 0 failures

Randomized with seed 1999

I passed the the following snippet at the very end of odot/spec/spec_helper.rb. The log suggests a slightly different notation, so I used the following in a separated block:

RSpec.configure do |c|
  # RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup#example is deprecated and will be removed in RSpec 3.
  # [...] snippet to continue making this method available in RSpec 2.99 and RSpec 3:
  c.expose_current_running_example_as :example
end

Everything works with a clean log after the addition.

Than, to code around the errors raised by...

bin/rspec spec/features/todo_lists/destroy_spec.rb # and
bin/rake spec

I used these steps.

# terminal
gem install shoulda-matchers -v 2.4.0

# Genfile
gem 'shoulda-matchers', '~> 2.4.0'

# terminal
bundle update && bundle
  • Installed the gem rspec-activemodel-mocks informed by the log.
# Genfile | group: development
rspec-activemodel-mocks

# spec_helper.rb
require 'rspec/rails' # here to function as a placeholder
require 'rspec/active_model/mocks'

# terminal
bundle

# grab the version and pass to Genfile
gem 'rspec-activemodel-mocks', '~>1.0.1'

Check

# terminal
bin/rspec spec/features/todo_lists/destroy_spec.rb && bin/rake spec
.

Finished in 0.28457 seconds
1 example, 0 failures

Randomized with seed 48119

...
PATHS
..*.........................*............

Pending:
  TodoList add some examples to (or delete) /home/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/models/todo_list_spec.rb
    # No reason given
    # ./spec/models/todo_list_spec.rb:4
  TodoListsHelper add some examples to (or delete) /home/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/helpers/todo_lists_helper_spec.rb
    # No reason given
    # ./spec/helpers/todo_lists_helper_spec.rb:14

Finished in 2.76 seconds
41 examples, 0 failures, 2 pending

Randomized with seed 7647

So far, so good. I am in the relationship stage. I will update the post if needed.

Gwyn Ellsworth
Gwyn Ellsworth
10,301 Points

That RSpec deprecation error has been driving me crazy. Thanks for this!