Rails user_path routing to users/index instead of users/id - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to work through the Rails tutorial at railstutorial.org and am stuck at this problem. My user_path in the test is supposed to go to the individual user's profile page, but is instead going to users/index (which I haven't created yet, on purpose).
/* My test code */
describe "profile page" do
#let(user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
#user = User.new(name: "Example User", email: "user#example.com",
password: "foobar", password_confirmation: "foobar")
before { visit user_path(#user) }
it { should have_content(user.name) }
it { shoult have_title(user.name) }
end
/* Failures: */
1) UserPages profile page
←[31mFailure/Error:←[0m ←[31mbefore { visit user_path(#user) }←[0m
←[31mActionView::MissingTemplate←[0m:
←[31mMissing template users/index, application/index with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :jbuilder, :coffe
}. Searched in:←[0m
←[31m * "C:/Users/rajeshch/Documents/Projects/sample_app/app/views"←[0m
[36m # C:in `find_template'←[0m
[36m # ./spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb:19:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'←[0m
The routes file shows that user_path should give me users/{id} or so
> rake routes
Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action
users GET /users(.:format) users#index
POST /users(.:format) users#create
new_user GET /users/new(.:format) users#new
edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit
user GET /users/:id(.:format) users#show <<<------
PATCH /users/:id(.:format) users#update
PUT /users/:id(.:format) users#update
DELETE /users/:id(.:format) users#destroy
root GET / static_pages#home
signup GET /signup(.:format) users#new
help GET /help(.:format) static_pages#help
about GET /about(.:format) static_pages#about
contact GET /contact(.:format) static_pages#contact
/* users_controller.rb*/
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def show
#user = User.find(params[:id])
end
def new
end
end
/* config/routes.rb */
SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
resources :users
root '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

Answer 1

You should save the User first with #user.save! before calling visit user_path(#user)
Because until you save the user it wont persist in the database and will not have any id.
describe "profile page" do
#let(user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
#user = User.new(name: "Example User", email: "user#example.com",
password: "foobar", password_confirmation: "foobar")
# Add this to your code ..
#user.save!
before { visit user_path(#user) }
it { should have_content(user.name) }
it { shoult have_title(user.name) }
end

Answer 2

Have you checked if #user has a value?
user_path(#user) will go to /users/<#user.id> but if #user is nil, it will try to go /users/. Given you haven't created the index method and views yet, that will probably be why it fails.
Thanks for the test code. Firstly your user is not in the database - change the .new to .create or add a #user.save. Secondly your params[:id] is not populated in the test code so the find will fail (add controller.params[:id] = #user.id to your test). (Thirdly you have a typo shoult instead of should in the last test.)

Answer 3

It doesn't seem like you included your test code, which would be immensely helpful in figuring out this problem. Most likely, you have #user set as nil in the test, fixing that will solve the problem.