Hello, I do still follow the Hartl tutorial. Am at chapter 6 and according to the manual the test schould be successfull but I see these error messages: Failures: 1) User when password doesn't match confirmation return value of authenticate method with valid password Failure/Error: it { should eq found_user.authenticate(@user.password) } NoMethodError : undefined method `authenticate' for nil:NilClass # ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:91:in `block (5 levels) in <top (required)>' You can find my code here : https://github.com/roelof1967/sample_app_nutrious/tree/chapter_six Roelof -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/d2a9b5fb-811f-4937-83ac-65c27577b5f2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.