Hartl Chapter 5 issue

Question

Going through Hartl's Rails tutorial and on Chapter 5.4.2 I am not able to get a certain test to pass.

Here is the error:

 1) UserPages GET /user_pages works! (now write some real specs)
     Failure/Error: get user_pages_index_path
     NameError:
       undefined local variable or method `user_pages_index_path' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1:0x007f9106e2cce8>
     # ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:7:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Here is the test in user_pages_spec.rb:

require 'spec_helper'

    describe "UserPages" do
      describe "GET /user_pages" do
        it "works! (now write some real specs)" do
          # Run the generator again with the 
          #  --webrat flag if you want to use webrat methods/matchers

          get user_pages_index_path
          response.status.should be(200)
        end
      end
    end

Here is the routes file:

get "users/new"
root  'static_pages#home'
match '/signup',  to: 'users#new',            via: 'get'
match '/help',    to: 'static_pages#help',    via: 'get'
match '/about',   to: 'static_pages#about',   via: 'get'
match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact', via: 'get'
match 'static_pages/home',    to: 'static_pages#home', via: 'get'

Any input is appreciated

---

Sorry about the formatting. In the very beginning of that section is a spec file: spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe "User pages" do

  subject { page }

  describe "signup page" do
    before { visit signup_path }

    it { should have_content('Sign up') }
    it { should have_title(full_title('Sign up')) }
  end
end

and I am getting the following error:

Failure/Error: get user_pages_index_path NameError: undefined local variable or method `user_pages_index_path' for #

Here is the rake routes output:

       Prefix Verb URI Pattern                  Controller#Action
    users_new GET /users/new(.:format)         users#new
         root GET /                            static_pages#home
       signup GET /signup(.:format)            users#new
         help GET /help(.:format)              static_pages#help
        about GET /about(.:format)             static_pages#about
      contact GET /contact(.:format)           static_pages#contact

static_pages_home GET /static_pages/home(.:format) static_pages#home

Answer 1

Just remove the contents at "user_pages_spec.rb" cause there is no such method called user_pages_index_path

so, here is what it should be

user_pages_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe "User pages" do

  subject { page }

  describe "signup page" do
    before { visit signup_path }

    it { should have_content('Sign up') }
    it { should have_title(full_title('Sign up')) }
  end
end

Also, At /config/routes.rb file

SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
  get "users/new"

  root  'static_pages#home'
  match '/signup',  to: 'users#new',            via: 'get'
  match '/help',    to: 'static_pages#help',    via: 'get'
  match '/about',   to: 'static_pages#about',   via: 'get'
  match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact', via: 'get'
  .
  .
  .
end

Answer 2

I was having same issue and I just commented out the "user_pages_spec.rb" file. When I did that I passed all the tests. Is this the correct answer, I don't know but as I stated it allows for the tests to pass.