Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Editing Todo Lists

Posted by Chris Caragianis
Chris Caragianis
14,105 Points

Why didn't we use TodoList.create in the create spec instead of writing create_todo_list ?

?

1 Answer

Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points
Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points

Hi Chris,

Capybara is designed for feature specs. Essentially it creates a test that acts as a user using a website. By creating a method that clicks something and fills in some stuff emulates the actions a user would do. You could simply do this yourself, but you would not be able to show in code that you did in fact test it.