Rails - May 2012 - Ruby on Rails Tutorial Chapter 6 RSpec tests failing

Hello all:

I''m a RoR newbie who is currently following the Ruby on Rails
Tutorial: Learning by Example book (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
chapters/modeling-users#sec:adding_a_secure_password). The following
Chapter 6 RSpec tests are failing:

Failures:

1) User [31mFailure/Error:[0m [31mit { should be_valid }[0m
[31mexpected valid? to return true, got false[0m [36m # ./spec/models/
user_spec.rb:19:in `block (2 levels) in ''[0m

2) User when email format is valid should be valid [31mFailure/Error:
[0m [31m-agIoKRwLymF0sw7Iq073Hg@public.gmane.org be_valid[0m [31mexpected valid?
to return true,
got false[0m [36m # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:51:in block (4 levels)
in <top (required)>''[0m [36m # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:
49:ineach''[0m [36m # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:49:in `block (3
levels) in ''[0m

3) User return value of authenticate method with valid password
[31mFailure/Error:[0m [31mit { should =found_user.authenticate(@user.password)
}[0m [31mNoMethodError:[0m
[31mundefined method authenticate'' for nil:NilClass←[0m [36m # ./spec/
models/user_spec.rb:94:inblock (4 levels) in ''[0m

4) User return value of authenticate method with invalid password
[31mFailure/Error:[0m [31mlet(:user_for_invalid_password)
{ found_user.authenticate("invalid") }[0m [31mNoMethodError:[0m
[31mundefined method authenticate'' for nil:NilClass[0m [36m # ./spec/
models/user_spec.rb:98:inblock (4 levels) in ''[0m [36m # ./spec/models/
user_spec.rb:100:in `block (4 levels) in ''[0m

5) User return value of authenticate method with invalid password
[31mFailure/Error:[0m [31mlet(:user_for_invalid_password)
{ found_user.authenticate("invalid") }[0m [31mNoMethodError:[0m
[31mundefined method authenticate'' for nil:NilClass[0m [36m # ./spec/
models/user_spec.rb:98:inblock (4 levels) in ''[0m [36m # ./spec/models/
user_spec.rb:101:in `block (4 levels) in ''[0m

Finished in 3.56 seconds [31m20 examples, 5 failures[0m

Failed examples:

[31mrspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:19[0m [36m# User [0m [31mrspec ./
spec/models/user_spec.rb:47[0m [36m# User when email format is valid
should be valid←[0m [31mrspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:94[0m [36m#
User return value of authenticate method with valid password ←[0m
[31mrspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:100[0m [36m# User return value of
authenticate method with invalid password [0m [31mrspec ./spec/models/
user_spec.rb:101[0m [36m# User return value of authenticate method
with invalid password [0m Slave(1) run done!

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Here is the user Model:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation
  attr_accessor :password, :password_confirmation
  has_secure_password

  before_save { |user| user.email = email.downcase }

  validates :name, presence: true, length: { maximum: 50 }
  VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i
  validates :email, presence: true, format: { with:
VALID_EMAIL_REGEX },uniqueness: { case_sensitive: false }
  validates :password, presence: true, length: { minimum: 6 }
  validates :password_confirmation, presence: true

---------------------------------------------------
Here is the RSpec model/user_spec.rb:

require ''spec_helper''

describe User do

  before do
    @user = User.new(name: "Examplexxx", email:
"user-hcDgGtZH8xNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org",
                     password: "foobar", password_confirmation:
"foobar")
  end

  subject { @user }

  it { should respond_to(:name) }
  it { should respond_to(:email) }
  it { should respond_to(:password_digest) }
  it { should respond_to(:password) }
  it { should respond_to(:password_confirmation) }
  it { should respond_to(:authenticate) }

  it { should be_valid }

  describe "when name is not present" do
    before { @user.name = " " }
    it { should_not be_valid }
  end

  describe "when email is not present" do
    before { @user.email = " " }
    it { should_not be_valid }
  end

  describe "when name is longer than 50 characters" do
    before { @user.name = "a" * 51 }
    it { should_not be_valid }
  end

  describe "when email format is invalid" do
    it "should be invalid" do
      addresses = %w[user@foo, com user_at_foo.org example.user@foo.
foo@bar_baz.com foo@bar+baz.com]
      addresses.each do |invalid_address|
        @user.email = invalid_address
        @user.should_not be_valid
      end
    end
  end

  describe "when email format is valid" do
    it "should be valid" do
      addresses = %w[user-aYmlcMoNXFo@public.gmane.org A_US-ER@f.b.org
frst.lst-CfcPUM2A7yk@public.gmane.org a
+b@baz.cn]
      addresses.each do |valid_address|
        @user.email = valid_address
        @user.should be_valid
      end
    end
  end

  describe "when email address is already taken" do
    before do
      user_with_same_email = @user.dup
      user_with_same_email.email = @user.email.upcase
      user_with_same_email.save
    end

    it { should_not be_valid }
  end

  describe "when password is not present" do
    before { @user.password = @user.password_confirmation = " " }
    it { should_not be_valid }
  end

  describe "when password doesn''t match confirmation" do
    before { @user.password_confirmation = "mismatch" }
    it { should_not be_valid }
  end


  describe "When password confirmation is nil" do
    before { @user.password_confirmation = nil }
    it { should_not be_valid }
  end

  describe "with a password that''s too short" do
    before { @user.password = @user.password_confirmation = "a" * 5 }
    it { should_not be_valid }
  end

  describe "return value of authenticate method" do
    before { @user.save }
    let(:found_user) { User.find_by_email(@user.email) }

    describe "with valid password" do
      it { should == found_user.authenticate(@user.password) }
    end

    describe "with invalid password" do
      let(:user_for_invalid_password)
{ found_user.authenticate("invalid") }

      it { should_not == user_for_invalid_password }
      specify { user_for_invalid_password.should be_false }
    end
  end

end

-------------------------------------------------

Here is my gemfile:

source ''https://rubygems.org''

gem ''rails'', ''3.2.3''
gem ''bootstrap-sass'', ''2.0.0''
gem ''bcrypt-ruby'', ''3.0.1''

group :development, :test do
  gem ''sqlite3'', ''1.3.5''
  gem ''rspec-rails'', ''2.9.0''
  gem ''spork''
  gem ''webrat''
end

gem ''jquery-rails'', ''2.0.0''

group :test do
    gem ''capybara'', ''1.1.2''
end


# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
  gem ''sass-rails'',   ''~> 3.2.3''
  gem ''coffee-rails'', ''~> 3.2.2''
  gem ''uglifier'', ''>= 1.0.3''
end

Thank you so much for your help! Neo Ramos

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