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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

Ana Takakuwa
Ana Takakuwa
2,640 Points
Posted by Ana Takakuwa
Ana Takakuwa
2,640 Points

Ran the first test and get a 1 failure even though the test runs fine on the local server. Redirecting to the index page

  1. File was created

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Creating todo lists" do

it "redirects to the todo list index page on success" do
    visit "/todo_lists"
    click_link "New Todo list"
    expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")

    end

end

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2 deprecation warnings total

Finished in 0.271 seconds 1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:5 # Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success

Randomized with seed 9925

2 Answers

Daniel Cunningham
Daniel Cunningham
21,109 Points
Daniel Cunningham
Daniel Cunningham
21,109 Points

What is the rest of the error? Is it "Expected to have content 'New todo_list'"? or is it something about not being able to find the link "New Todo list". Bear in mind that these commands are case sensitive, so if you mislabel "New Todo list" or needed a capital letter in ('New todo_list'), it will fail.

Ben Michel
Ben Michel
3,170 Points
Ben Michel
Ben Michel
3,170 Points

If it's a syntax error due to a mislabeling like Daniel mentioned, you should have a failure logged similar to this:

Failures:

  1) Creating todo lists redirects to the todo list index page on success
     Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")
       expected to find text "New todo_list" in "New Todo List Title Description Back"
     # ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

I had this problem while following along with the video because I labeled the page content (which is the header) "New Todo List" rather than "New todo_list" like they did.

If this is your case, back in create_spec.rb try changing the line:

expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")

–To exactly what you labeled the text that's rendered as the header on the /todo_lists/new page (http://localhost:3000/todo_lists/new).

In my case, I labeled it "New Todo List"–so adjusting accordingly fixed the problem:

expect(page).to have_content("New Todo List")