Question

I’ve added the following tests to spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "UserPages" do
  subject { page }
  .
  .
  .
  describe "user should be able to update username" do
    before do
      @user = FactoryGirl.create(:user)
      visit new_user_session_path
      fill_in "Email", with: user.email
      fill_in "Password", with: user.password
      click_button "Sign In"
    end

    specify { @user.username.should_not == "New Name" }

    context "after filling in correct details" do
      before do
        visit edit_user_registration_path
        fill_in "Name", with: "New Name"
        fill_in "Current password", with: @user.password
        click_button "Update"
      end

      specify { @user.reload.username.should == "New Name" }
      it { should have_selector('div.alert.alert-notice', text: "You updated your account successfully." ) }
      it { should have_selector('title', text: "Edit account details" ) }
    end
  end

end

The first specify returns username “Person”, but so does the second one after the reload:

1) UserPages user should be able to update username after filling in correct details 
   Failure/Error: specify { @user.reload.username.should == "New Name" }
     expected: "New Name"
          got: "Person" (using ==)
   # ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:83:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

If I change any line the test fails, and I’ve checked the app manually and updating works. I’ve also tried calling just @user.reload before getting the name again.

What could be the problem? Should I be putting this code somewhere else?

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

You should use @user instance in this lines:

fill_in "Email", with: user.email
fill_in "Password", with: user.password

So, it should be:

fill_in "Email", with: @user.email
fill_in "Password", with: @user.password