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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

Daniel Gonzalez
Daniel Gonzalez
5,312 Points
Posted by Daniel Gonzalez
Daniel Gonzalez
5,312 Points

Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("New Todo_list") expected to find text "New Todo_list" in "New todo error

I keep receiving this error when running test after finishing editing the create_spec.rb file. I can't seem to find anything wrong with what I've written.

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
    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 am doing today")

    end
end

1 Answer

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

Can you show your views that are visited using this test? A lot can be wrong here. You have lots of expectations, but we don't know which line exactly is failing. Example:

This will fail 100%:

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")

because you are filling in with "List" and expecting there to be "list" - upper and lower case letters matter.

Please do this whole test yourself in the browser to see if you really see the content that you are expecting in the tests, such as "New Todo_list" instead of "New Todo list" (without underscore).