Railstutorial.org 6.2.4 Format Validation - validation

Question

Working my way through Hartl's Railstutorial.org, an I run into an issue getting the test to work on the Format validation with the email.
My user.rb is as follows:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
validates :name, presence: true, length: { maximum:50 }
VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+#[a-z]+\z/i
validates :email, presence: true, format: { with: VALID_EMAIL_REGEX }
end
user_spec.rb is:
require 'spec_helper'
describe User do
before do
#user = User.new(name: "Example User", email: "user#example.com")
end
subject { #user }
it { should respond_to(:name) }
it { should respond_to(:email)}
it { should be_valid}
describe "when name is not present" do
before { #user.name = " " }
it { should_not be_valid }
end
describe "when email is not present" do
before { #user.email=" "}
it { should_not be_valid }
end
describe "when name is too long" do
before { #user.name="a"*51}
it {should_not be_valid}
end
describe "when email format is invalid" do
it "should be invalid" do
addresses = %w[user#foo,com user_at_foo.org
example.user#foo. foo#bar_baz.com foo#bar+baz.com]
addresses.each do |invalid_address|
#user.email = invalid_address
expect(#user).not_to be_valid
end
end
end
describe "when email format is valid" do
it "should be valid" do
addresses = %w[user#foo.COM A_US-ER#f.b.org frst.lst#foo.jp a+b#baz.cn]
addresses.each do |valid_address|
#user.email = valid_address
expect(#user).to be_valid
end
end
end
end
My error listing is as follows:
Failures:
1) User
Failure/Error: it { should be_valid}
expected #<User id: nil, name: "Example User", email: "user#example.com",
created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> to be valid, but got errors: Email is invalid
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:13:in 'block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
2) User when email format is valid should be valid
Failure/Error: expect(#user).to be_valid
expected #<User id: nil, name: "Example User", email: "user#foo.COM". cre
ated_at: nil, updated_at: nil> to be valid, but got errors. Email is invalid
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:45:in 'block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:43:in 'each'
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:43:in 'block (3 levels) in >top (required)>'
Finished in 0.03 seconds
8 examples, 2 failures
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:13 # User
rspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:41 # User when email format is valid should be
valid
I am sure that I am missing something minor (when I have this much trouble figuring it out, it usually is minor). Would greatly appreciate any help I can get.

Answer 1

The exact code in the tutorial is as follows:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
validates :name, presence: true, length: { maximum: 50 }
VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+#[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i
validates :email, presence: true, format: { with: VALID_EMAIL_REGEX }
end
your VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+#[a-z]+\z/i lacks some letters.