the question you need to ask is: is flash[:error] a variable within the scope that you're working ? ... I suspect that it's not, although I could be wrong.
with that in mind, does anyone know of a way of determining which variables are accessible via rspec on each (MVC) layer ?, Is it a simple case of 'what's accessible in the controller is accessible in the controller spec' (for example) ?, or is it more complicated ? cheers On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Robert Dober <robert.do...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Paul Nelligan <nell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Andrew > > I suspect that flash[:error] is not a valid identifier, and therefore is > > returning a nil value. > > Hope this is of use to you. > > Paul > > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Davis <li...@ruby-forum.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> I'm trying to write a failure test for updating a model, but the > >> flash[:error] seems to be causing a problem. > >> > >> All code can be found here: > >> http://pastie.org/private/zcu0fpzbfbjbleocmf1bqw > >> > >> I've also tried using regular expressions, instead of: > >> > >> flash[:error].should == "Name can't be blank" > >> > >> I've tried: > >> > >> flash[:error].should =~ /Name can't be blank/i > > As Paul pointed out correctly flash[:error] == nil, thus your spec > works quite correctly. All you have to do now is to set flash[:error] > appropriately, in your case I guess that this should be done by means > of ActiveRecord/ActiveModel validations. > Are you sure that you have the necessary validation in your Task model? > > HTH > Robert > > -- > The 1,000,000th fibonacci number contains '42' 2039 times; that is > almost 30 occurrences more than expected (208988 digits). > N.B. The 42nd fibonacci number does not contain '1000000' that is > almost the expected 3.0e-06 times. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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