Rspec test failure: Static pages About page should have the title 'About Us' Hartl Ch. 3

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com//questions/12658511

  •  11-12-2019
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Question

I am working through Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial, and I am doing the Chapter 3 exercises. Can someone please explain why this test is failing?

I am getting the failure

rspec ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:39 # 
Static pages About page should have the title 'About Us'

Controller

  class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController
  def home
  end

  def help
  end

  def about
  end

  def Contact
  end
end

About.html.erb

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App | About Us</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>About Us</h1>

Spec.rb

describe "About page" do

  it "should have the h1 'About Us'" do
    visit '/static_pages/about'
  page.should have_selector('h1', :text => 'About Us')
end
it "should have the title 'About Us'" do
  visit '/static_pages/about'
  page.should have_selector('title',
                :text => "Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App | About Us")
  end
end

Routes.rb

SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
  get "static_pages/home"

  get "static_pages/help"

  get "static_pages/about"

  get "static_pages/Contact"
end
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Solution

Try

page.should have_xpath("//title", :text => "About Us")

OTHER TIPS

If you're following MHartl's tutorial and you're using the gem 'Capybara', I can confirm that changing your ':text => ...' to ':content => ...' will make your tests pass. Thanks to @Kuo Jimmy.

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