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10,012 PointsSays unitialized constant Todolist but cant work out how to intialize it. Any help?
Here is the terminal
kerns-mbp:odot Kern$ bin/rspec spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb [deprecated] I18n.enforce_available_locales will default to true in the future. If you really want to skip validation of your locale you can set I18n.enforce_available_locales = false to avoid this message. .F
Failures:
1) Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has no title Failure/Error: expect(Todolist.count).to eq(0) NameError: uninitialized constant Todolist # ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:20:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Finished in 0.08714 seconds 2 examples, 1 failure
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:19 # Creating todo lists displays an error when the todo list has no title
Here is my create_spec.rb file
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")
fill_in "Title", with: "My todo list"
fill_in "Description", with:"This is what i am doing today"
click_button "Create Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("My todo list")
end
it "displays an error when the todo list has no title" do
expect(Todolist.count).to eq(0)
visit "/todo_lists"
click_link "New Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("New todo_list")
fill_in "Title", with: ""
fill_in "Description", with: "This is what i am doing today"
click_button "Create Todo list"
expect(page).to have_content("error")
expect(Todolist.count).to eq(0)
visit "/todo_lists"
expect(page).to_not have_content("This is what I'm doing today.")
end
end
here is my todo_list.rb file
class TodoList < ActiveRecord::Base validates :title, presence: true end
3 Answers
Wali Ali
2,040 PointsDo you have a a class called Todolist somewhere?
Kern Tallett
10,012 PointsDouble post
Kern Tallett
10,012 PointsI have followed the steps exactly so no. I thought it was because I hadn't set up a class but just didn't understand why. I am not fully understanding this currently as well as the other languages. The managing on multiple files. All I can think I have missed a step or made a mistake just can't see where.