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John
John

Reputation: 1276

Hartl Rails section 8.3 rspec error

I'm working through the hartl rails tutorial

I'm at the end of section 8.3, the application is functioning correctly but I'm getting an rspec error

1) User pages signup with valid information after saving the user 
 Failure/Error: it { should have_link('Sign out') }
   expected link "Sign out" to return something
 # ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:48:in `block (5 levels) in <top (required)>'

the part of user_pages_spec.rb that is involved in this is 

it "should create a user" do
    expect { click_button submit }.to change(User, :count).by(1)
  end  
  describe "after saving the user" do
    it { should have_link('Sign out') }
  end

I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to fix this. There are other posts around similar to this but alas, I can't get their solutions to work in my case. thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 419

Answers (1)

EricM
EricM

Reputation: 754

It looks like you need to Create the account before checking for the link. There is more to the tests than you posted. Here is a snippet of the code I used when going through the tutorial.

describe "after saving the user" do
  before { click_button "Create my account" }
  it { should have_link('Sign out') }
end

Upvotes: 5

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