Rails Factory Girl, Stubs and Mocks

Useful Links :

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5183975/factory-girl-whats-the-purpose
2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5164102/mocks-and-stubs

Michael Hartl tutorial Chapter 7. Error: " expected css "title" with text "Michael Hartl" to return something"

While passing the test for the show method of user, the test fail due to the following error.

Failures:

  1) User pages profile page
     Failure/Error: it { should have_selector('title', text: user.name) }
       expected css "title" with text "Michael Hartl" to return something
     # ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:18:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 2.22 seconds
33 examples, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:18 # User pages profile page

This is because of the helper tag in "app/views/users/show.html.erb"
 Replace

<% provide(:title, @user.name) %>

with 

 <title><%= @user.name%></title>

Static pages should have the right links on the layout

While practising Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial, when I want to test the links. One test is failing with the following error message.

Error: "Static pages should have the right links on the layout" 

This can be fixed by putting "visit root_path" before  click_link "Sign up now!"

screen shot of the code is given below.
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it "should have the right links on the layout" do
    visit root_path
    click_link "About"
    page.should have_selector 'title', text: full_title('About Us')
    click_link "Help"
    page.should # fill in
    click_link "Contact"
    page.should # fill in
    click_link "Home"
    visit root_path
    click_link "Sign up now!"
    page.should # fill in
    click_link "sample app"
    page.should # fill in
  end

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 Useful Links :

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5361916/my-rspec-test-wont-pass-michael-hartls-rails-tutorial
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11732971/rails-link-to-not-found-by-capybara
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6701223/rail3-tutorial-testingchapter-5-click-link-error
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12242045/expected-css-title-hartls-tutorial-chapter-5-exercises

root access/privileges

go to the root by typing
$ sudo -i
then
# useradd -g root user
then verify with
# id user