Question

I have been having this issue for a while now and I cannot seem to wrap my brain around as I have recreated everything from scratch numerous times

Anyways I am at the part of the book where we want the home page link to go from http://localhost:3000/pages/home (This worked perfectly by the way) to http://localhost:3000
(basically meaning I want the home page to show up on the root page)

Currently the error i have is
LayoutLinks should have a Home page at ‘/’
Failure/Error: response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Home”)
And underneath it is a bunch of text saying waht the page should look like.

Now I did 2 things, I first created the layout_links_spec.rb page, added the help page to the pages_controller.rb, and added the routes to config/routes.rb below is the code for all 3

layout_links_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'
describe "LayoutLinks" do
#  describe "GET /layout_links" do
#    it "works! (now write some real specs)" do
  # Run the generator again with the --webrat flag if you want to use webrat methods/matchers
#      get layout_links_index_path
#      response.status.should be(200)

it "should have a Home page at '/'" do
get '/'
response.should have_selector('title', :content => "Home")
     end

it "should have a Contact page at '/contact'" do
get '/about'
response.should have_selector('title', :content => "About")
end

it "should have a Help page '/help'" do
get '/help'
response.should have_selector('title', :content => "Help")
  end
end

Pages_controller.rb

def home
    @title = "Home"
  end

  def contact
        @title = "Contact"
  end

  def about
        @title = "About"
  end

  def help
        @title =  "Help"
  end 
end

config/routes.rb

SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
match '/contact', :to => 'pages#contact'
match '/about',   :to => 'pages#about'
match '/help',    :to => 'pages#help'
root :to => 'pages#home'
end

Is there something I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

Add “end” to the end of your routes.rb 🙂
There is a block, that opens with “do” and you didn’t close it. Check the listing 5.20 carefully.