Issue with Failures in Chapter 7 of Hartl Tutorial - ruby

Question

When I run bundle exec rspec spec/ I'm getting 21 examples and 3 failures. Those failures being:
Failures:
1) User has_password? method should be true if the passwords match
Failure/Error: #user.has_password?(#attr[:password]).should be_true
NoMethodError:
undefined method has_password?' for nil:NilClass
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:47:inblock (3 levels) in '
2) User has_password? method should be false if the passwords don't match
Failure/Error: #user.has_password?("invalid").should be_false
NoMethodError:
undefined method has_password?' for nil:NilClass
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:51:inblock (3 levels) in '
3) User password validations should accept valid email addresses
Failure/Error: it "should reject invalid email addresses" do
NoMethodError:
undefined method it' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_3::Nested_3:0x00000102eb38b0>
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:97:inblock (3 levels) in '
I'll post my user_spec.rb file bc I think it's almost right, but not completely. Note the commented out ends, I had those in play before but thought they were wrong so commented them out.
require 'spec_helper'
describe User do
before(:each) do
#attr = {
:name => "Example User",
:email => "user#example.com",
:password => "foobar",
:password_confirmation => "foobar" }
end
it "should create a new instance given valid attributes" do
User.create!(#attr)
end
describe "password encryption" do
before(:each) do
#user = User.create!(#attr)
end
it "should have an encrypted password attribute" do
#user.should respond_to(:encrypted_password)
end
it "should set the encrypted password" do
#user.encrypted_password.should_not be_blank
end
end
describe "has_password? method" do
it "should be true if the passwords match" do
#user.has_password?(#attr[:password]).should be_true
end
it "should be false if the passwords don't match" do
#user.has_password?("invalid").should be_false
end
end
describe "password validations" do
it "should require a password" do
User.new(#attr.merge(:password => "", :password_confirmation => "")).
should_not be_valid
end
it "should require a matching password confirmation" do
User.new(#attr.merge(:password_confirmation => "invalid")).
should_not be_valid
end
it "should reject short passwords" do
short = "a" * 5
hash = #attr.merge(:password => short, :password_confirmation => short)
User.new(hash).should_not be_valid
end
it "should reject long passwords" do
short = "a" * 5
hash = #attr.merge(:password => short, :password_confirmation => short)
User.new(hash).should_not be_valid
end
it "should require a name" do
no_name_user = User.new(#attr.merge(:name => ""))
no_name_user.should_not be_valid
end
it "should require an email address" do
no_email_user = User.new(#attr.merge(:email => ""))
no_email_user.should_not be_valid
end
it "should accept valid email addresses" do
addresses = %w[user#foo.com THE_USER#foo.bar.org first.last#foo.jp]
addresses.each do |address|
valid_email_user = User.new(#attr.merge(:email => address))
valid_email_user.should be_valid
end
#end
it "should reject invalid email addresses" do
addresses = %w[user#foo,com user_at_foo.org example.user#foo.]
addresses.each do |address|
invalid_email_user = User.new(#attr.merge(:email => address))
invalid_email_user.should_not be_valid
end
#end
it "should reject duplicate email addresses" do
# Put a user with given email address into the database.
User.create!(#attr)
user_with_duplicate_email = User.new(#attr)
user_with_duplicate_email.should_not be_valid
end
it "should reject email addresses identical up to case" do
upcased_email = #attr[:email].upcase
User.create!(#attr.merge(:email => upcased_email))
user_with_duplicate_email = User.new(#attr)
user_with_duplicate_email.should_not be_valid
end
it "should reject names that are too long" do
long_name = "a" * 51
long_name_user = User.new(#attr.merge(:name => long_name))
long_name_user.should_not be_valid
end
end
end
end
end
My user.rb file is fine I think.
So the 3 failures thing is one aspect of my problem, but the thing that really worries me is the following command:
bundle exec rspec spec/models/user_spec.rb -e "has_password\? method"
The result in terminal is this:
No examples matched {:full_description=>/(?-mix:has_password\\?\ method)/}.
Finished in 0.00003 seconds
0 examples, 0 failures
According to Hartl I should have 2 examples, and 0 failures. Ideas? Any input appreciated :)

Answer 1

in your user_spec.rb file.
make sure you have:
before(:each) do
#user = User.create!(#attr)
end
right after the following line:
describe "has_password? method" do
it's missing from the code in the tutorial. you'll see it's part of the password encryption block. it looks like it stubs out a user for that test. it's not very DRY...probably a way to have that stub block run for each describe block, but that's a bit further along than i am. :) hope it helps...got my tests working.