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Hello I keep getting this error:

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

  1) Editing todo lists updates a todo list successfully with correct information
     Failure/Error: update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list,
     NameError:
       undefined local variable or method `todo_list' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0xb919adfc>
     # ./spec/features/todo_lists/edit_spec.rb:22:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Deprecation Warnings:

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RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup#example is deprecated and will be removed
in RSpec 3. There are a few options for what you can use instead:

  - rspec-core's DSL methods (`it`, `before`, `after`, `let`, `subject`, etc)
    now yield the example as a block argument, and that is the recommended
    way to access the current example from those contexts.
  - The current example is now exposed via `RSpec.current_example`,
    which is accessible from any context.
  - If you can't update the code at this call site (e.g. because it is in
    an extension gem), you can use this snippet to continue making this
    method available in RSpec 2.99 and RSpec 3:

      RSpec.configure do |c|
        c.expose_current_running_example_as :example
      end

(Called from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/capybara-2.1.0/lib/capybara/rspec.rb:20:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>')
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RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup#example is deprecated and will be removed
in RSpec 3. There are a few options for what you can use instead:

  - rspec-core's DSL methods (`it`, `before`, `after`, `let`, `subject`, etc)
    now yield the example as a block argument, and that is the recommended
    way to access the current example from those contexts.
  - The current example is now exposed via `RSpec.current_example`,
    which is accessible from any context.
  - If you can't update the code at this call site (e.g. because it is in
    an extension gem), you can use this snippet to continue making this
    method available in RSpec 2.99 and RSpec 3:

      RSpec.configure do |c|
        c.expose_current_running_example_as :example
      end

(Called from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/capybara-2.1.0/lib/capybara/rspec.rb:21:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>')
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If you need more of the backtrace for any of these deprecations to
identify where to make the necessary changes, you can configure
`config.raise_errors_for_deprecations!`, and it will turn the
deprecation warnings into errors, giving you the full backtrace.

2 deprecation warnings total

Finished in 0.00355 seconds
1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/edit_spec.rb:21 # Editing todo lists updates a todo list successfully with correct information

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treehouse:~/projects/odot (master *) $

Code:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Editing todo lists"  do
    def update_todo_list(options={})
        options[:title] ||= "My todo list"
        options[:description] ||= "This is my todo list."
        todo_list =  options[:todo_list]

        visit "/todo_lists"
        within "#todo_list_#{todo_list.id}"  do
        click_link "Edit"

    end

    fill_in "Title", with: options[:title]
    fill_in "Description", with: options[:description]
    click_button "Update Todo list"

    end

    it "updates a todo list successfully with correct information" do
        todo_list = TodoList.create(title: "Groceries", description: "Grocery list.")
        update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list, 
                    title: "New title", 
                    description: "New description"

    todo_list.reload

    expect(page).to have_content("Todo list was successfully updated")
    expect(todo_list.title). eq("New title")
    expect(todo_list.description).to eq("New description")
    end
end

Answer 1 · 2014-08-14T09:48:57Z

August 14, 2014 9:48am

Regarding the depreciation warnings this post might help you out.

maybe this line:

expect(todo_list.title). eq("New title")

should be

expect(todo_list.title).to eq("New title")

Answer 2 · 2014-09-15T22:31:46Z

September 15, 2014 10:31pm

I got the same error for this code:

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")

        fill_in "Title", with: "My todo list"
        fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today"
        click_button "Create Todo list"

        expect(page).to have_content("My todo list")
    end

    #Title

    it "displays an error when the todo list has no title" do
        expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

        visit "/todo_lists"
        click_link "New Todo list"
        expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")

        fill_in "Title", with: ""
        fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today."
        click_button "Create Todo list"

        expect(page).to have_content("error")
        expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

        visit "todo_lists"
        expect(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.")

    end

    it "displays an error when the todo list has a title less than 3 characters" do
        expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

        visit "/todo_lists"
        click_link "New Todo list"
        expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")

        fill_in "Title", with: "Hi"
        fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today."
        click_button "Create Todo list"

        expect(page).to have_content("error")
        expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

        visit "todo_lists"
        expect(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.")

    end

    #Description

        it "displays an error when the todo list has no Description" do
        expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

        visit "/todo_lists"
        click_link "New Todo list"
        expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")

        fill_in "Title", with: "Hola"
        fill_in "Description", with: ""
        click_button "Create Todo list"

        expect(page).to have_content("error")
        expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

        visit "todo_lists"
        expect(page).to_not have_content("Hola")

    end

    it "displays an error when the todo list has a title less than 3 characters" do
        expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

        visit "/todo_lists"
        click_link "New Todo list"
        expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")

        fill_in "Title", with: "Hola"
        fill_in "Description", with: "This is what I'm doing today."
        click_button "Create Todo list"

        expect(page).to have_content("error")
        expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)

        visit "todo_lists"
        expect(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.")

    end
end

Answer 3 · 2014-08-14T09:51:22Z

August 14, 2014 9:51am

Thank you so much, it takes another person to sometimes see an error, thank you once again!

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