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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

Philip Bessa
Philip Bessa
5,396 Points
Posted by Philip Bessa
Philip Bessa
5,396 Points

First rspec test fails.

It needs to be told somewhere that using the virtual machine the instructor suggests has a quirk of copying text. I had to click on the file menu, Edit > Mark Text, which gives just one shot to select text with my cursor at a time.

I echo the sentiment of this "crash and burn" approach in this section just sucks. It's deja vu all over again because Bloc.io is like this all the time. Not a good feeling. I didn't even learn any rspec stuff there - they told me to skip it all.

I'm pretty sure I followed all the directions correctly thus far, but the initial rspec test hits an error:

/home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/controllers/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb ./spec/helpers/todo_lists_helper_spec.rb ./spec/models/todo_list_spec.rb ./spec/requests/todo_lists_spec.rb ./spec/routing/todo_lists_routing_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/edit.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/index.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/new.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/show.html.erb_spec.rb /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:229:in `require': cannot load such file -- capybara/rpsec (LoadError)
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:229:in `block in require'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in `load_dependency'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:229:in `require'
        from /home/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/spec_helper.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
        from /home/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/controllers/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb:1:in `require'
        from /home/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/controllers/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in `load'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in `block in load_spec_files'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in `each'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1065:in `load_spec_files'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:in `run'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:103:in `run'
        from /home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.99.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'
/home/treehouse/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/controllers/todo_lists_controller_spec.rb ./spec/helpers/todo_lists_helper_spec.rb ./spec/models/todo_list_spec.rb ./spec/requests/todo_lists_spec.rb ./spec/routing/todo_lists_routing_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/edit.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/index.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/new.html.erb_spec.rb ./spec/views/todo_lists/show.html.erb_spec.rb failed

Following through the rest of the video still results in the cannot load such file -- capybara/rpsec (LoadError) problem.

Any clues? Thanks in advance.

1 Answer

Guillaume Maka
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Guillaume Maka
Courses Plus Student 10,224 Points
Guillaume Maka
Guillaume Maka
Courses Plus Student 10,224 Points

You misspelled the require statement

require 'capybara/rpsec' instead of 'capybara/rspec'

Philip Bessa
Philip Bessa
5,396 Points
Philip Bessa
Philip Bessa
5,396 Points

My vision just isn't good enough to spot typos like that. Never would have known.

Thank you!

Guillaume Maka
Guillaume Maka
Courses Plus Student 10,224 Points
Guillaume Maka
Guillaume Maka
Courses Plus Student 10,224 Points

Don't worry , that have already happened to me too, my vision is not that good too ; )