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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Adding Validations to Todo Items

Brian Patterson
Brian Patterson
19,588 Points

Not getting the same error message as Jason

Not getting the same error message as Jason at 2.20 mins. The error message I am getting is Adding todo items displays an error with no content (FAILED - 1) is successful with valid content

Failures:

1) Adding todo items displays an error with no content Failure/Error: within("div.flash") do Capybara::ElementNotFound: Unable to find css "div.flash" # ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:30:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

The code it relates to is :

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.")
    within("ul.todo_items") do
        expect(page).to have_content("Milk")
    end

    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 todolist item")
        end
        expect(page).to have_content("Content cant be blank")

    end

end

1 Answer

Brian Patterson
Brian Patterson
19,588 Points

I think this might be the answer:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Odot</title>
  <%= stylesheet_link_tag    "application", media: "all", "data-turbolinks-track" => true %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag "application", "data-turbolinks-track" => true %>
  <%= csrf_meta_tags %>
</head>
<body>

  <% flash.each do |type, message| %>
  <div class="alert flash <%= type %>">
    <%= message %>
  </div>
  <% end %>

<%= yield %>

</body>
</html>

I didn't write the alert flash message properly.