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7,661 Pointsgetting failure when adding todo items
I have seen this error posted and corrected but still cannot solve my issue. Here is the error.
Adding todo items
is successful with valid content
displays an error with no content (FAILED - 1)
Failures:
1) Adding todo items displays an error with no content
Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("There was a problem adding that todo list item")
expected to find text "There was a problem adding that todo list item" in "There was an error adding that todo list item"
# ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:28:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
# ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:27:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Finished in 0.27938 seconds
2 examples, 1 failure
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:22 # Adding todo items displays an error with no content
Randomized with seed 27454
And here is my create spec
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Adding todo items" do
let!(:todo_list) { TodoList.create(title: "Grocery list", description: "Groceries") }
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)
click_link "New Todo Item"
fill_in "Content", with: "Milk"
click_button "Save"
expect(page).to have_content("Added todo list item")
expect(page).to have_content("Milk")
end
it "displays an error with no content" do
visit_todo_list(todo_list)
click_link "New Todo Item"
fill_in "Content", with: ""
click_button "Save"
within("div.flash") do
expect(page).to have_content("There was a problem adding that todo list item")
end
expect(page).to have_content("Content can't be blank")
end
end
andrewgierke
7,661 Pointsandrewgierke
7,661 PointsSolved it. I had the wrong message in my todo_items_controller.rb. Duh