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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

Kern Tallett
Kern Tallett
10,012 Points
Posted by Kern Tallett
Kern Tallett
10,012 Points

What is going wrong?

/Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:11: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_end (SyntaxError) fill_in "Description", with:"This is what i am doing today" ^ /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:11: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_end fill_in "Description", with:"This is what i am doing today" ^ /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:12: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_end click_button "Create Todo list" ^ /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:16: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_end expect(page).to have_content("My todo list")
^ /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:16: unterminated string meets end of file /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:16: syntax error, unexpected end-of-input, expecting keyword_end from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:in block in load_spec_files' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:ineach' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:in load_spec_files' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:inrun' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in run' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:inblock in autorun' kerns-mbp:odot Kern$ bin/rspec spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:in load': /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:11: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_end (SyntaxError) fill_in "Description", with:"This is what i am doing today" ^ /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:11: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_end fill_in "Description", with:"This is what i am doing today" ^ /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:12: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_end click_button "Create Todo list" ^ /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:16: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_end expect(page).to have_content("My todo list") ^ /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:16: unterminated string meets end of file /Users/Kern/treehouse/projects/odot/spec/features/todo_lists/create_spec.rb:16: syntax error, unexpected end-of-input, expecting keyword_end from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:inblock in load_spec_files' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:in each' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:896:inload_spec_files' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in run' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:inrun' from /Users/Kern/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.7/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun' kerns-mbp:odot Kern$

And this is my 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

end

2 Answers

Andrew Corcoran
Andrew Corcoran
20,552 Points
Andrew Corcoran
Andrew Corcoran
20,552 Points

Hi Kern,

You are missing an end quote on the following line.

 fill_in "Title", with: "My todo list
Kern Tallett
Kern Tallett
10,012 Points
Kern Tallett
Kern Tallett
10,012 Points

Ahhh hot dogs

That is a touch embarrassing. Thank you Andrew.