RSpec fails to find dynamically created :title

Question

I am reading the railstutorial.org book and I am stuck. Like the title says, RSpec is not locating the title tag. Before refactoring I did a check and it passed...At the bottom I only added one page but the other two are created. They are all the same minus the title.

cmd RSpec output:

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:40 # Static Pages should have the title 'About Us' rspec ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:11 # Static Pages Home page should have the title 'Home' rspec ./spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:25 # Static Pages Help page should have the title 'Help'

gem file:

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem "rails", "~> 3.2.12"

# Bundle edge Rails instead:
# gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git'

group :development, :test do    gem 'sqlite3', '~> 1.3.7'   gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 2.12.2' end


# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default. group :assets do   gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.4'   gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.2'

  # See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes   # gem 'therubyracer', :platforms => :ruby

  gem "uglifier", "~> 1.3.0" end

gem "jquery-rails", "~> 2.2.1"

group :test do  gem "capybara", "~> 2.0.2" end

group :production do    gem "pg", "~> 0.14.1" end

# To use ActiveModel has_secure_password
# gem 'bcrypt-ruby', '~> 3.0.0'

# To use Jbuilder templates for JSON
# gem 'jbuilder'

# Use unicorn as the app server
# gem 'unicorn'

# Deploy with Capistrano
# gem 'capistrano'

# To use debugger
# gem 'debugger'

Routes:

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

  get "static_pages/help"

  get "static_pages/about"
end

spec.rb:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Static Pages" do

    describe "Home page" do
        it "should have the h1 'Sample App'" do
            visit '/static_pages/home'
            page.should have_selector('h1', :text => 'Sample App')
        end

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

    describe "Help page" do

        it "should have the h1 'Help'" do
            visit '/static_pages/help'
            page.should have_selector('h1', :text => 'Help')
        end

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

    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
    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

application.html.erb:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App | <%= yield(:title) %></title>
  <%= stylesheet_link_tag    "application", :media => "all" %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
  <%= csrf_meta_tags %>
</head>
<body>

<%= yield %>

</body>
</html>

home.html.erb:

<% provide(:title, "Home") %>

<h1>Sample App</h1>
<p>
This is the home page for the
<a href="http://railstutorial.org/">Ruby on Rails Tutorial</a>
sample application.
</p>

Paul Fioravanti Paul Fioravanti · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-14T13:52:48

The reason it didn't work is because you had Capybara version ~> 2.0.2 installed instead of 1.1.2, which is what the tutorial uses.

Version 2.0.0 and up don't have the text in the title tag visible by default in the page anymore (there's a reason why Hartl makes sure to directly specify gem versions in his Gemfile: for issues like this that can spring up).

More details in the Github issue, with a workaround to the issue is in this StackOverflow Q&A (though I would recommend that you just stick with the gem versions the tutorial has specified for now, and perhaps come back to this as a refactoring exercise).

RSpec fails to find dynamically created :title

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