Rails Tests Not Found - Undefined local variable or method "response"
I am trying to follow Michael Hartl's Rails 3 tutorial and I am facing a bug that I cannot find elsewhere. In Section 9.2.1 , I get an error when I try to run a test for unsubscribed users trying to refresh their profile page.
describe "submitting to the update action" do
before { put user_path(user) }
specify { response.should redirect_to(signin_path) }
end
The error I am getting is "undefined local variable or response method for # (NameError)". This is the answer to "bundle exec rspec spec /". When I comment out the offending line, all tests are created and passed. I've tried replacing "response" with things like "response.body" and "page", but none of them help.
I'm not sure what the problem is, because as I progress through the tutorial, blocks like this go through without incident.
Here's the full text of the error:
C:\Ruby193\bin\ruby.exe -e $stdout.sync=true;$stderr.sync=true;load($0=ARGV.shift) C:\Ruby193\bin\rake spec
Testing started at 7:39 PM ...
C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe -S rspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb
Rack::File headers parameter replaces cache_control after Rack 1.5.
C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:60:in `block (5 levels) in <top (required)>': undefined local variable or method `response' for #<Class:0x4894908> (NameError)
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `module_eval'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `subclass'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:230:in `describe'
from C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:58:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `module_eval'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `subclass'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:230:in `describe'
from C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:51:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `module_eval'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `subclass'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:230:in `describe'
from C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:48:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `module_eval'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `subclass'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:230:in `describe'
from C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:46:in `block in <top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `module_eval'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:244:in `subclass'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:230:in `describe'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/dsl.rb:18:in `describe'
from C:/Users/Jeff/Documents/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:245:in `load'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:245:in `block in load'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load_dependency'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:245:in `load'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:789:in `block in load_spec_files'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:789:in `each'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:789:in `load_spec_files'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in `run'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in `run'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-core-2.12.2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'
rake aborted!
C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe -S rspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb failed
-e:1:in `load'
-e:1:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => spec
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
Process finished with exit code 1
Empty test suite.
I'm sure this is not a typo somewhere, but an offensive file (authentication_pages_spec.rb). (has_title () is the method I found here to fix the bug, because apparently has_selector ('title', ...) is no longer valid syntax.)
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Authentication" do
subject { page }
describe "signin page" do
before { visit signin_path }
it {should have_selector('h1', text: 'Sign in') }
it {should have_title('Sign in') }
end
describe "signin" do
before { visit signin_path }
describe "with invalid information" do
before { click_button "Sign in" }
it { should have_title('Sign in') }
it { should have_selector('div.alert.alert-error', text: 'Invalid') }
describe "after visiting another page" do
before { click_link "Home" }
it { should_not have_selector('div.alert.alert-error') }
end
end
describe "with valid information" do
let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
before { sign_in user }
it { should have_title(user.name) }
it { should have_link('Profile', href: user_path(user)) }
it { should have_link('Settings', href: edit_user_path(user)) }
it { should have_link('Sign out', href: signout_path) }
it { should_not have_link('Sign in', href: signin_path) }
describe "followed by signout" do
before { click_link "Sign out" }
it { should have_link('Sign in') }
end
end
end
describe "authorization" do
describe "for non-signed-in users" do
let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
describe "in the Users controller" do
describe "visiting the edit page" do
before { visit edit_user_path(user) }
it { should have_title('Sign in') }
end
describe "submitting to the update action" do
before { put user_path(user) }
specify ( response.should redirect_to(signin_path) )
end
describe "as wrong user" do
let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
let(:wrong_user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user, email: "wrong@example.com") }
before { sign_in user }
describe "visiting Users#edit_page" do
before { visit edit_user_path(wrong_user) }
it { should_not have_title(full_title("Edit user")) }
end
describe "submitting a PUT request to the Users#update action" do
before { put user_path(wrong_user) }
specify { response.should redirect_to(root_path) }
end
end
end
end
end
end
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Which version of Capybara are you using?
$ bundle exec gem list | grep capybara
If you are using a version >= 2.0
, you should take a look at your Gemfile again, and in particular, mark the version in the same way as in the tutorial ( 1.1.2
).
Gemfile
group :test do
gem 'capybara', '1.1.2'
end
If you are desperate to use the latest version, you will have to make some changes described in the following StackOverflow Q & As file:
- Capybara methods undefined
- capybara: post, get methods do not work when changing the name of the function request directory
- RSpec and Capybara 2.0 disabled my has_selector tests
Update
Ok, you're going to kick yourself, but after cloning your repo and getting the same error, your problem is obvious (syntax highlighting is your friend):
On line 77 of your spec / requests / authentication_pages_spec.rb , you have:
specify ( response.should redirect_to(signin_path) )
It should be:
specify { response.should redirect_to(signin_path) }
Once corrected, your tests will pass.
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