Question

When running following command:

bundle exec rspec spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb

i get following errors

 FF.......

    Failures:

      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:6: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:10:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

    Finished in 0.38131 seconds
    9 examples, 2 failures

    Failed examples:

    rspec ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:4 # Static pages Home page should have the h1 'Sample App'
    rspec ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:8 # Static pages Home page should have the base title

my static_pages_spec.rb looks like this:

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
describe "Help page" do
    it "should have the h1 'Help me'" do
        visit help_path
        page.should have_selector('h1', text: 'Help me')
    end
it "should have the title 'Help me'" do
  visit help_path
   page.should have_selector('title',
                text: "Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App | Help me")
end
end
describe "About page" do
  it "should have the h1 'About us'" do
    visit about_path
    page.should have_selector('h1', text: 'About us')
  end
it "should have the title 'About us'" do
  visit about_path
  page.should have_selector('title',
                text: "Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App | About us")
    end
  end

  describe "Contact page" do
  it "should have the h1 'Contact'" do
    visit contact_path
    page.should have_selector('h1', text: 'Contact')
  end

it "should have the title 'Contact'" do
  visit contact_path
  page.should have_selector('title',
                text: "Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App | Contact")
    end
  end
end

my routes.rb

   SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
      root to: 'static_pages#home'

      match '/help', to: 'static_pages#help'
      match '/about', to: 'static_pages#about'
      match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact'
end

I had 9/9 failures before, but then I added

config.include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers

to the spec/rspec_helper.rb, and now i’m left with the to failures above

Answer 1

You need to delete your public/index.html file. Once removed, your code runs fine.

A way to check what’s going on:

1. Add gem "launchy" to your Gemfile
2. bundle
3. add
   save_and_open_page after your visit root_path