Question

All assertions pass, but I’m getting an error:

1) Error:

test_should_perform_user_login(SessionsControllerTest):
NameError: undefined local variable or method `create' for StoriesController:Class

Here’s the code for the test:

def test_should_perform_user_login                                                                                                    
  post :create, :login => 'patrick', :password => 'sekrit'                                                                            
  assert_redirected_to stories_path                                                                                                   
  assert_equal users(:patrick).id, session[:user_id]                                                                                  
  assert_equal users(:patrick), assigns(:current_user)  
end

Here is where I define the create method in `sessions_controller.rb:

def create
    @current_user = User.find_by_login_and_password(params[:login], params[:password])

    if @current_user
        session[:user_id] = @current_user.id
        if session[:return_to]
            redirect_to session[:return_to]
            session[:return_to] = nil
        else
            redirect_to stories_path
        end
    else
        render :action => 'new'
    end
end

does this help?

I’m reading the book, ‘Simply Rails 2‘.

Answer 1

Biggest error fixed.

NameError: undefined local variable or method `create' for StoriesController:Class

This comes from the before_filter call where you left a : (colon) off of the method symbols array.

The next error was in application.rb; its error was:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `redirect_to_new_session_path'

There’s an extra underscore between the redirect_to method and its argument, new_session_path.

Next was a bogus selector in the stores test. Last I’m leaving as an exercise for the reader 🙂 (Hint: there are two problems.)