Ruby newbie here. I’m following the Rails Tutorial and got stuck around 5.3 re: routes.
I have 5 pages(home, about, help, contact), all with similar test set, and rspec is only failing for the tests on ‘home’. Since I’m using application_helper, I shouldn’t need to specify in home.html.erb, right? I also took the advise of understanding rails routes: match vs root in routes.rb and added “match ‘/static_pages/home’ => ‘static_pages#home'” to routes.db.
Been stuck on these 2 errors for a while. Please help. Thanks!
Errors:
1) Static pages Home page should have the h1 'Sample App'
Failure/Error: page.should have_selector('h1', text: 'Sample App')
expected css "h1" with text "Sample App" to return something
# ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:9:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
2) Static pages Home page should have the base title
Failure/Error: page.should have_selector('title',
expected css "title" with text "Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App" to return something
# ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:13:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
home.html.erb
<div class="center hero-unit">
<h1>Welcome to the Sample App</h1>
<h2>
This is the home page for the
<a href="http://railstutorial.org/">Ruby on Rails Tutorial</a>
sample application.
</h2>
<%= link_to "Sign up now!", '#', class: "btn btn-large btn-primary" %>
</div>
<%= link_to image_tag("rails.png", alt: "Rails"), 'http://rubyonrails.org/' %>
static_pages_spec.rb
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Static pages" do
describe "Home page" do
it "should have the h1 'Sample App'" do
visit root_path
page.should have_selector('h1', text: 'Sample App')
end
it "should have the base title" do
visit root_path
page.should have_selector('title', text: "Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App")
end
it "should not have a custom page title" do
visit root_path
page.should_not have_selector('title', text: '| Home')
end
end
application.html.erb
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title><%= full_title(yield(:title)) %></title>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", media: "all" %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>
<%= render 'layouts/shim' %>
</head>
<body>
<%= render 'layouts/header' %>
<div class="container">
<%= yield %>
<%= render 'layouts/footer' %>
</div>
</body>
</html>
application_helper.rb
module ApplicationHelper
# Returns the full title on a per-page basis.
def full_title (page_title)
base_title = "Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App"
if page_title.empty?
base_title
else
"#{base_title} | #{page_title}"
end
end
end
routes.rb
SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
match '/help', to: 'static_pages#help'
match '/about', to: 'static_pages#about'
match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact'
match '/static_pages/home' => 'static_pages#home'
root to: 'static_pages#home'
end
Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks!
Have you removed the public/index.html file and visually verified that you can get to / in your browser, and that the expected template is being rendered? Your spec looks OK otherwise.