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Courses Plus Student 89 PointsGetting 3 failures editing to_do lists
nearly getting the hang of this but can't work this one out
something relating to the ("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") line ?
any ideas
git https://github.com/neilp666/todo2015
Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with not enough content (FAILED - 1) is unsuccessful with no content (FAILED - 2) is successful with valid content (FAILED - 3)
Failures:
1) Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with not enough content
Failure/Error: within("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") do
NameError:
undefined local variable or method todo_item' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007fb8b56a33b0>
# ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:46:in
block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
2) Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with no content
Failure/Error: within("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") do
NameError:
undefined local variable or method todo_item' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007fb8b85e9728>
# ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:32:in
block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
3) Editing todo lists is successful with valid content
Failure/Error: within("#todo_item_#{todo_item.id}") do
NameError:
undefined local variable or method todo_item' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007fb8b8721398>
# ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:17:in
block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Finished in 0.52455 seconds 3 examples, 3 failures
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:44 # Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with not enough content rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:30 # Editing todo lists is unsuccessful with no content rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb:15 # Editing todo lists is successful with valid content
Randomized with seed 16149
Neils-MacBook-Pro-2:todo2015 neilpatel$
1 Answer
Seth Reece
32,867 PointsHi Neil,
You need to set a todo item in your spec just as you did a todo list. E.g.
let!(:todo_item) { todo_list.todo_items.create(content: "Milk") }