Is anyone else getting Deprecation errors when they run $rake spec ?

You can try adding this to your spec_helper.rb file

RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.expose_current_running_example_as :example
end

This course is fairly up to date, the thing with Rails, it's always updating. If you want to learn Rails you'll have to dig into resolving issues on your own sooner or later. Don't be afraid to do a bit extra work for this course, it's pretty good.

Part of this is that the rspec version is 2.99.0 ( as referenced by typing bundle in the CLI ). As explained here: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/1208 they suggest you replace 'pending' with 'xit'.

The other two errors that'll show up are on in todo_lists_controller_spec.rb

line 75:

assigns(:todo_list).should be_persisted

• unkown fix

and line 156:

response.should redirect_to(todo_lists_url)

changing that to a non-named url like so:

response.should redirect_to("/todo_lists")

will fix it. Everything else is as normal.

You might be running a different version of ruby or rails than the tutorial is using.

One way to change this is by using rvm so you can change your ruby version to match the tutorial. Later on, you may find you'll go from getting a few warnings to finding that packages will work in a completely different fashion, or you may even need to find a substitute package to get things to work.

On the upside, if you tough it out and do a little research while using a newer version, you'll find that you'll learn a bit more about ruby and rails along the way.

Thanks guys, but I've decided to learn Ruby on Rails from a different source that is up to date. I've run into too many version difference difficulties in this track. Railstutorial.org/book for anyone who is interested!