Question

I’m trying to create an Order model for receiving orders, based on Michael Hartl’s User model in his tutorial.

I’ve created a basic Order page and Confirmation page, both in the Orders directory in View. I created tests for content, and when I run them, they show all sorts of errors, most having to do with this:

Failure/Error: before { visit root_path }
  ActionView::Template::Error:
      No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"orders"}

Which I figured had to do with missing view (cause of “template”), but as I said, I’ve got those files. In my routes.rb file, I have the following:

resources :orders

root to: 'alpha#welcome'

match '/order', to: 'orders#new'

match '/about', to: 'alpha#about'
match '/contact', to: 'alpha#contact'
match '/confirmation', to: 'orders#show'

And my Order controller says this:

class OrdersController < ApplicationController
  def show
    @order = Order.find(params[:id])
  end

  def new
    @order = Order.new
  end
end

I’ve been combing through his tutorial to try to figure out what I’m doing wrong, but nothing’s working yet. Help? I’m very new to this.

Oh. Additionally confusing is that rspec claims it’s having this problem in a spec document that doesn’t try to follow either of those routes at all. (I’ve got three specs: one for static pages, one for the order model, and one for the order pages. The static page one is complaining about the action in the order model controller.)

Thanks, as requested, here’s my order pages spec:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Order Pages" do 

    subject { page }

    describe "order page" do
        before {visit order_path}

        it { should have_selector('h1', text: 'Order Below') }
        it { should have_selector('title', text: 'Order') }

    end

    describe "confirmation page" do
        let(:order) { FactoryGirl.create(:order) }
        before { visit confirmation_path(order) }

        it { should have_selector('h1',    text: 'Your order:') }
        it { should have_selector('title', text: 'Order') }
    end

end

Answer 1

Judging from the error you’re getting you’re missing an :id in your route, so I suspect you’re not including the order as an argument when calling order_path in your specs (it would be helpful if you’d include the spec code).

You should call the path for any member actions (show, update, destroy) in your specs like this:

visit order_path(@order)

(I’ll add more to this answer once you post the spec code.)