Testing: click_link error I can't track down

Here is the error I am getting:

…F

Failures:

  1. LayoutLinks should have the right links on the layout
    Failure/Error: click_link “Sign up”
    Could not find link with text or title or id “Sign up”

    ./spec/requests/layout_links_spec.rb:37:in `block (2 levels) in

<top (required)>’

Finished in 0.28358 seconds
6 examples, 1 failure

Here is the test file for LayoutLinks. The last ‘it block’ has the
click_link that is giving me the problem:

#spec/requests/layout_links_spec.rb:

require ‘spec_helper’

describe “LayoutLinks” do
it “should have a Home page at: /” do
get ‘/’
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Home”)
end

it “should have an About page at: /about” do
get ‘/about’
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “About”)
end

it “should have a Contact page at: /contact” do
get ‘/contact’
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Contact”)
end

it “should have a Help page at: /help” do
get ‘/help’
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Help”)
end

it “should have a Sign up page at: /signup” do
get “/signup”
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Sign up”)
end

it “should have the right links on the layout” do
visit root_path
click_link “About”
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “About”)
click_link “Contact”
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Contact”)
click_link “Help”
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Help”)
click_link “Sign up”
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Sign up”)
click_link “Home”
response.should have_selector(‘title’, :content => “Home”)
end

The other click_link’s pass their tests. It’s only the ‘Sign up’ link
that is giving me the problem. The only difference I can discern is
that the page with the ‘Sign up’ link is handled by a different
controller: Users v. Pages (the controllers are listed below).

Here is the application layout:

application.html.erb:

<%= title() %> <%= csrf_meta_tag %> <%= render 'layouts/stylesheets' %>
<div class="container">

  <%= render 'layouts/header' %>

  <section class="round">
    <%= yield %>
  </section>

  <%= render 'layouts/footer' %>

</div>

Here is the Home page that contains the ‘Sign Up’ link:

home.html.erb: (inserted at ‘yield’ in application layout)

Me

Hi, this is my website.

<%= link_to “Sign up”, signup_path, :class => “signup_button round” %>

Here are my routes:

config/routes.rb:

SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
get “users/new”

#get “pages/home”

#get “pages/contact”

#get “pages/about”

#get “pages/help”

match ‘/signup’, :to => ‘users#new’

match ‘/about’, :to => ‘pages#about’
match ‘/contact’, :to => ‘pages#contact’
match ‘/help’, :to => ‘pages#help’

root :to => ‘pages#home’
end

Here are my controllers:

users_controller.rb:

class UsersController < ApplicationController
def new
@title = “Sign up”
end

end

pages_controller.rb:

class PagesController < ApplicationController
def home
@title = “Home”
end

def contact
@title = “Contact”
end

def about
@title = “About”
end

def help
@title = “Help”
end

end

Cross posted to:

On 14 July 2011 22:59, 7stud – removed_email_address@domain.invalid wrote:

<top (required)>’
I presume that you have looked at the html generated for that page
(View > Page Source or similar in your browser) to see whether it is
the html that is at fault or the test. If it is the html then what
html is generated for that link and what do you expect it to be to
pass the test? If you think the html is correct and the test should
pass then show us the html for the link.

Colin

On Jul 15, 8:44am, 7stud – removed_email_address@domain.invalid wrote:

And if I click on View Source for the Home page, the ‘Sign up’ link is
there (not to be confused with the “Sign in” link):

If you look at your spec, the line above you’ve gone to the help page,
and it’s on that page that a sign up link is being looked for.
It’s as if you, in a real browser, was going to the home page and
(without opening links in new tabs etc) clicked on links in the order
specified, waiting for the page to load after each click

Fred

Thanks Fred. After spending hours creating a duplicate app, I happened
to cut and paste the ‘Sign up’ click_link in a different order, and the
tests passed. After pasting the ‘Sign up’ click_link in several
different places and examining the results, I came up with the
explanation you posted, and I returned here to post my findings, and
voila!

I was about to give up! I would have seen your explanation eventually,
so thanks.

Hi,

Thanks for the response. When I manually click on the ‘Sign up’ link on
the Home page, it successfully displays the following page (which is
what I want):

app/views/users/new.html.erb

<h1>Users#new</h1>
<p>Find me in app/views/users/new.html.erb</p>

And if I click on View Source for the Home page, the ‘Sign up’ link is
there (not to be confused with the “Sign in” link):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My website | Home</title>
    <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"/>
<meta name="csrf-token"

content=“i/PD5uKjp87ArBPcr51a82KeW/5peacAJ6M908f3sP8=”/>

<link href="/stylesheets/blueprint/screen.css?1310454155"

media=“screen” rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” />

<!--[if lt IE 8]>
  <link href="/stylesheets/blueprint/ie.css?1310454155"

media=“screen” rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” />
<![endif]–>

<link href="/stylesheets/custom.css?1310632912" media="screen"

rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” />

  </head>

  <body>

    <div class="container">

      <header>
  <a href="/"><img alt="Autumn" class="round" height="140"

src=“/images/autumn.jpg?1310626333” width=“300” />

  <nav class="round">
    <ul>
      <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="/help">Help</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Sign in</a></li>
    </ul>
  </nav>

</header>


      <section class="round">
        <h1>Me</h1>
<p>Hi, this is my website.</p>

******** Sign up


      </section>

      <footer>
  <nav class="round">
    <ul>
      <li><a href="/about">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="/contact">Contact</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://news.railstutorial.org/">News</a></li>
    </ul>
  </nav>
</footer>



    </div>

  </body>
</html>

I have an application helper method called title(), which inserts a
title for each view based on the value of the @title variable in the
various actions. I think the test should pass if the Home page has a
‘Sign up’ link, which when clicked gets a response from the server that
has a title tag containing ‘Sign up’. The click_link tests pass for the
other links–the only one that fails is the ‘Sign up’ link.