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

Error when bin/rspec --format=documentation spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb is run.

'odot veeni$ bin/rspec --format=documentation spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb /Users/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in load': /Users/veeni/Documents/treehouse/odot/spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:4: syntax error, unexpected tLABEL (SyntaxError) ...list) { TodoList.create (title: "Grocery List", description:... ... ^ /Users/veeni/Documents/treehouse/odot/spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:4: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting '}' ....create (title: "Grocery List", description: "Groceries") } ... ^ /Users/veeni/Documents/treehouse/odot/spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:4: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting '}' ...ist", description: "Groceries") } ... ^ /Users/veeni/Documents/treehouse/odot/spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:52: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end, expecting '}' from /Users/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:inblock in load_spec_files' from /Users/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in each' from /Users/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:inload_spec_files' from /Users/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:in run' from /Users/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:103:inrun' from /Users/veeni/.rbenv/versions/2.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun' '

And the code is:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Editing todo items" do
    let!(:todo_list) { TodoList.create (title: "Grocery List", description: "Groceries") }
    let!(:todo_item) { todo_list.todo_items.create(content: "Milk") }

    def visit_todo_list(list)
        visit "/todo_lists"
        within "#todo_list_#{list.id}" do
            click_link "List Items"
        end
    end

    it "is successful with valid content" do
        visit_todo_list(todo_list)
        within("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") do
            click_link "Edit"
        end
        fill_in "Content", with: "Lots of Milk" 
        click_button "Save"
        expect(page).to have_content("Saved todo list item.")
        todo_item.reload
        expect(todo_item.title).to eq("Lots of Milk")
    end

    it "is unsuccessful with no content" do
    visit_todo_list(todo_list)
    within ("#todo_items_#{todo_item.id}") do
        click_link "Edit"
    end
    fill_in "Content", with: ""
    click_button "Save"
    expect(page).to have_content("Saved todo list item.")
    expect(page).to have_content("Content can't be blank")
    todo_item.reload
    expect(todo_item.title).to eq ("Milk")
    end

 it "is unsuccessful with not enough content" do
    visit_todo_list(todo_list)
    within ("#todo_items_#{todo_item.id}") do
        click_link "Edit"
    end
    fill_in "Content", with: "1"
    click_button "Save"
    expect(page).to have_content("Saved todo list item.")
    expect(page).to have_content("Content is too short")
    todo_item.reload
    expect(todo_item.title).to eq ("Milk")
    end

end

please guide if possible, thank you!

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

In line 4:

let!(:todo_list) { TodoList.create (title: "Grocery List", description: "Groceries") }

Remove the space after create, so:

let!(:todo_list) { TodoList.create(title: "Grocery List", description: "Groceries") }

It should work now.