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Asked: 2026-06-18T03:26:00+00:00

I’ve been following along with Michael Hartl’s tutorial, although for some reason I seem

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I’ve been following along with Michael Hartl’s tutorial, although for some reason I seem to be getting this error when testing:

Failures:   

1) PagesController GET 'home' should have the right title
 Failure/Error: response.should have_selector("title",
   expected css "title" to return something
 # ./spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:18:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.11535 seconds
4 examples, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:16 # PagesController GET 'home' should have the right title

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Here are my pages_controller_spec file contents:

require 'spec_helper'



describe PagesController do


render_views

describe "GET 'home'" do
it "returns http success" do
  get 'home'
  response.should be_success
end

it "should have the right title" do
  get 'home'
  response.should have_selector("title", 
      :content => "Ruby on rails tutorial sample app | Home")
 end
 end

describe "GET 'contact'" do
it "returns http success" do
  get 'contact'
  response.should be_success
 end
end


describe "GET 'about'" do
it "returns http success" do
  get 'about'
  response.should be_success
end
 end
 end

And here are the contents of my home.html.erb file:

<!DOCTYPE>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Ruby on rails tutorial sample app | Home</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Pages#home</h1>
    <p>Find me in app/views/pages/home.html.erb</p>
</body>
 </html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Yeah that happened to me too. Please just make sure that you are using that exact version of Capybara mentioned in the tutorial. i.e. 1.1.2

    I have tried many variations and alternatives and have reached the conclusion that there is still some compatibility issues in the latest Capybara.

    Hope this helps.

    Update: Nailed it. Checkout the source of the home page from your
    browser. Since application layout uses a yield inside <body>, all you
    html in home.html.erb is actually replaced inside the body(even the
    <title> part is being substituted inside <body> tag), effectively
    nullifying <head> and <title> elements. That’s why there is no view
    specific title yet. The title defined in
    /views/layout/application.html.erb is being used on your home page.

    My advice is to push on with the tutorial. In just a few steps, you will be pass the tests.

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