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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

Nelly Lam
Nelly Lam
5,098 Points
Posted by Nelly Lam
Nelly Lam
5,098 Points

Todo List App - Error

At around minute 4:20, I run the rake tests, and I got an additional error:

Failures:

1) todo_lists/index renders a list of todo_lists Failure/Error: assert_select "tr>td", :text => "Title".to_s, :count => 2 Minitest::Assertion: Expected exactly 2 elements matching "tr > td", found 1.. Expected: 2 Actual: 1 # ./spec/views/todo_lists/index.html.erb_spec.rb:20:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

the file it's referencing:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "todo_lists/index" do
  before(:each) do
    assign(:todo_lists, [
      stub_model(TodoList,
        :title => "Title",
        :description => "MyText"
      ),
      stub_model(TodoList,
        :title => "Title",
        :description => "MyText"
      )
    ])
  end

  it "renders a list of todo_lists" do
    render
    # Run the generator again with the --webrat flag if you want to use webrat matchers
    assert_select "tr>td", :text => "Title".to_s, :count => 2
    assert_select "tr>td", :text => "MyText".to_s, :count => 2
  end
end

We haven't touched this file, so I'm not sure if this is the origin of the problem... Any tips?

Nelly Lam
Nelly Lam
5,098 Points
Nelly Lam
Nelly Lam
5,098 Points

Ah... just realized what happened.

I scrolled up to read the error messages and saw this: ................................***.....ignoring attempt to close td with tr

It's referencing the spec for index.html.erb, so I went back to the file index.html.erb and checked all the tr and td tags. Turns out one of them is not closed. It must've happened when we re-organized the links and deleted a bunch of tags.

Whew! No need to worry everyone. It's fixed!

Sherwyn Cooper
Sherwyn Cooper
Courses Plus Student 8,910 Points

great job this helped me thank you!

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