Michael Hartle Chapter 5: "No route matches" error - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am using Rails 4.0.8. When I ran bundle exec rspec spec/, here's the error I got from the tutorial (http://www.railstutorial.org/book/filling_in_the_layout):
Pending: StaticPagesHelper add some examples to (or delete)
/Users/Desktop/sample_app/spec/helpers/static_pages_helper_spec.rb
# No reason given
# ./spec/helpers/static_pages_helper_spec.rb:14
Failures:
1) StaticPagesController GET '...' returns http success
Failure/Error: get '...'
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"...", :controller=>"static_pages"}
# ./spec/controllers/static_pages_controller_spec.rb:7:in `block (3 levels) in '
Finished in 0.20849 seconds 19 examples, 1 failure, 1 pending
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/controllers/static_pages_controller_spec.rb:6 #
StaticPagesController GET '...' returns http success
Here is my route.rb file:
SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
resources :users
root to: '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
Here is my static_pages_helper_spec.rb file:
require 'spec_helper'
# Specs in this file have access to a helper object that includes
# the StaticPagesHelper. For example:
#
# describe StaticPagesHelper do
# describe "string concat" do
# it "concats two strings with spaces" do
# helper.concat_strings("this","that").should == "this that"
# end
# end
# end describe StaticPagesHelper do pending "add some examples to (or delete) #{__FILE__}" end
Here is my static_pages_controller_spec.rb file:
require 'spec_helper'
describe StaticPagesController do
describe "GET '...'" do
it "returns http success" do
get '...'
response.should be_success
end
end
end
app/controllers/static_pages_controller.rb
class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController
def home
end
def help
end
def about
end
def contact
end
end
I wonder whether I'm getting the error because my version is not compatible with his tutorial. Should I be looking at this tutorial instead http://rails-3-2.railstutorial.org/book/filling_in_the_layout#sec-rails_routes?

Answer 1

Your static_pages_controller_spec has
describe "GET '...'" do
it "returns http success" do
get '...'
response.should be_success
end
end
The "..." is nonsense in this context and the tutorial probably included it as a "specimen" entry.
Comment out the above lines, or replace "..." with a real method in your static_pages_controller.rb. You probably have an index method so you could do...
describe "GET index" do
it "returns http success" do
get :index
response.should be_success
end
end
Cheers