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Posted by Suleiman Leadbitter
Suleiman Leadbitter
15,805 Points

Build a Todo List Application: Adding Todo Items

I'm at this part of the course and everything seemed to be going pretty well until right at the end.

I'm putting in the code to terminal - bin/rspec --format=documentation spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb

But I'm getting an error that I am really unsure about.

Adding todo items
  is successful with valid content (FAILED - 1)

Failures:

  1) Adding todo items is successful with valid content
     Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content("Added todo list item")
       expected to find text "Added todo list item" in "Grocery list Milk New Todo Item"
     # ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:18:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.9907 seconds
1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/todo_items/create_spec.rb:13 # Adding todo items is successful with valid content

I have even downloaded the project files to compare but can't seem to find any differences.

I also have it uploaded to Github if anyone knows what to look for - https://github.com/Sulcalibur/treehouse-odot

Due to me really not knowing what I'm doing, I just haven't a clue really, sorry :/

2 Answers

Amy Kang
Amy Kang
17,188 Points
Amy Kang
Amy Kang
17,188 Points

Looks like your flash message is not showing up. In your layouts/application.html.erb file try putting "=" in the message tag.

  <% flash.each do |type, message| %>
  <div class="alert flash <%= type %>">
    <%= message %>
  </div>
  <% end %>

It should now show the message.

Suleiman Leadbitter
Suleiman Leadbitter
15,805 Points

Thank you! Such a silly reason for me to come to a standstill :/

Amy Kang
Amy Kang
17,188 Points
Amy Kang
Amy Kang
17,188 Points

You're welcome! Glad it helped. :)

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points
Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

First of all, Suleiman, nice one for putting all of your code up - hardly anyone does that, and it means they usually don't get answers.

Don't give up on this - there is a ton of learning to be had here. I'll help you.

Looking at your test error message, I'm not sure your app is going to the correct page after clicking save when adding an item.

In your browser, try to create a new todo list item. Enter 'milk' into the box. What happens when you click save?

Suleiman Leadbitter
Suleiman Leadbitter
15,805 Points

Thanks Andrew Stelmach. I'm not giving up, I'm determined to get through the whole Ruby track so expect a few more forum posts lol