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I keep getting this error when running my Rspec test and can’t figure
out
why. I’m pretty new to Rails (and programming in general) so any
direction
or help would be much appreciated!
Failures:
- User pages profile page
Failure/Error: before { visit user_path(user) }
ActionView::Template::Error:
undefined method `downcase’ for nil:NilClass
./app/helpers/users_helper.rb:5:in `gravatar_for’
./app/views/users/show.html.erb:3:in
`_app_views_users_show_html_erb__1766857043046396980_38603940’
./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:9:in `block (3 levels) in <top
(required)>’
2) User pages profile page
Failure/Error: before { visit user_path(user) }
ActionView::Template::Error:
undefined method `downcase’ for nil:NilClass
./app/helpers/users_helper.rb:5:in `gravatar_for’
./app/views/users/show.html.erb:3:in
`_app_views_users_show_html_erb__1766857043046396980_38603940’
./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:9:in `block (3 levels) in <top
(required)>’
Finished in 0.46129 seconds39 examples, 2 failures
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:12 # User pages profile page
rspec ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:11 # User pages profile page
I’m in Chapter 7.13 of the Ruby on Rails tutorial. The tests cleared
just
fine until I added the Gravatar code and FactoryGirls Gem.
/app/helpers/users_helper.rb file
module UsersHelper
Returns the Gravatar (http://gravatar.com/) for the given user.
def gravatar_for(user)
gravatar_id = Digest::MD5::hexdigest(user.email.downcase)
gravatar_url = “https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/#{gravatar_id}”
image_tag(gravatar_url, alt: user.name, class: “gravatar”)
endend
spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb
require ‘spec_helper’
describe “User pages” do
subject { page }
describe “profile page” do
let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
before { visit user_path(user) }
it { should have_content(user.name) }
it { should have_title(user.name) }
end…end
And the last reference: app/views/users/show.html.erb
<% provide(:title, @user.name) %>
<%= gravatar_for @user %>
<%= @user.name %>
Here is the factory file:
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do
name “Michael H.”
email “[email protected]”
password “foobar”
password_confirmation “foobar”
endend