Question

I get following error when running rspec:

bundle exec rspec spec/models/user_spec.rb

Failures:

1) User when name is too long
Failure/Error: it { should_not be_vaild }
NoMethodError:
undefined method vaild?' for #<User:0x007f8eebf0d6c0>
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:39:inblock (3 levels) in ‘

Finished in 0.22196 seconds 6 examples, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:39 # User when name is too long

my user.rb file

# == Schema Information
#
# Table name: users
#
#  id         :integer          not null, primary key
#  name       :string(255)
#  email      :string(255)
#  created_at :datetime         not null
#  updated_at :datetime         not null
#

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :name, :email,

 validates :name, presence: true, length: { maximum: 50 }
 validates :email, presence: true

end

my user_spec.rb

# == Schema Information
#
# Table name: users
#
#  id         :integer          not null, primary key
#  name       :string(255)
#  email      :string(255)
#  created_at :datetime         not null
#  updated_at :datetime         not null
#

require 'spec_helper'

describe User do

    before do
        @user = User.new(name: "Example User", email: "[e-mail]")
end

  subject { @user }

  it { should respond_to(:name) }
  it { should respond_to(:email) }

  it { should be_valid }

  describe "when name is not present" do
    before { @user.name = " " }
    it { should_not be_valid }
  end

  describe "when email is not present" do
    before { @user.email = " " }
    it { should_not be_valid }
    end

  describe "when name is too long" do
    before { @user.name = "a" * 51 }
    it { should_not be_vaild }
  end
end

Answer 1

I made a typo, misspelled valid

valid

not

vaild