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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Write Our First Tests

Posted by Xavier Akram
Xavier Akram
1,000 Points

Failure on comparing TodoList.count

Test fails on second part

 1) creating to do lists displays an error when there is no title
 Failure/Error: expect(TodoList.count).to eq(0)
   expected: 0
        got: 10

   (compared using ==)
 # ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:8:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Is the test not clearing the database on each execution?

The test is executed in Terminal by: rspec spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb

1 Answer

Rachelle Wood
Rachelle Wood
15,362 Points
Rachelle Wood
Rachelle Wood
15,362 Points

Hi, this is an old question. I don't know if you managed to fix it, but I had a very similar error. Just change 10 out for a 1. In my case, it turned out to be a problem with the validation step. For some reason, I had no concerns folder in my app/models folder. There was a todo_list.rb file though in the models folder. When I put the validation code in it, it worked! Maybe that will work for you if you are using rspec 2.99?