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Ruby

Kathryn Gilbert
Kathryn Gilbert
5,122 Points
Posted by Kathryn Gilbert
Kathryn Gilbert
5,122 Points

Write Your First Test - _spec.rb failed

Hi, I'm watching the video titled "Write Your First Test" in the 'Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4' video series. I'm at the part where I just need to run a test and I got the following error:

/Users/katiegilbert/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.1/bin/ruby -I/Users/katiegilbert/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/rspec-core-3.4.4/lib:/Users/katiegilbert/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/rspec-support-3.4.1/lib /Users/katiegilbert/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/rspec-core-3.4.4/exe/rspec --pattern spec/\*\*\{,/\*/\*\*\}/\*_spec.rb failed Katies-MacBook-Air:testapp katiegilbert$

I tried updating rspec-rails to solve the issue but it doesn't look like this is the issue. Any other ideas?

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

at risk of coming across as hopelessly naive given my absolute lack of knowledge about ruby (my ignorance is uncompromising and has a completeness that a collector would love), is this something that could benefit from posting code or a treehouse workspace snapshot? That message seems very unspecific.

Kathryn Gilbert
Kathryn Gilbert
5,122 Points
Kathryn Gilbert
Kathryn Gilbert
5,122 Points

Thanks Simon. Yes, it would help to do that. I was able to figure out that I needed to update my version of capybara though!

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

Glad you worked it out. So it was just the local machine, not a shortfall with the video.

Kathryn Gilbert
Kathryn Gilbert
5,122 Points
Kathryn Gilbert
Kathryn Gilbert
5,122 Points

The video says to install an older version of capybara. I should have looked up what the newest stable version was because I think the video is a bit older.