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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Editing Todo Items

Posted by Barry Timilow
Barry Timilow
31 Points

Error ActionView::MissingTemplate

I am not sure why but I am getting this error when trying to run my edit_spec. Here is the link to my github project https://github.com/hondoh/ODOT

Editing todo items is successful with valid content (FAILED - 1)

Failures:

1) Editing todo items is successful with valid content Failure/Error: click_link "Edit" ActionView::MissingTemplate: Missing template todo_items/edit, application/edit with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in: * "/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/web-console-2.0.0/lib/action_dispatch/templates" * "/Users/hsh2692/projects/odot/app/views" # ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:20:in block (3 levels) in <top (required)>' # ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:19:inblock (2 levels) in '

Finished in 0.30641 seconds 1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:17 # Editing todo items is successful with valid content

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Your view file uses a wrong extension. You have app/views/todo_lists/edit.rb while it should be either .erb or .html.erb. Just rename the file and it should work fine.