Help on Chapter 8 I keep getting a weird rspec error and was wondering if you could help!

gistfile1.txt

Failures:

  1) Authentication with valid information
     Failure/Error: fill_in "Email",    with: user.email.upcase
     Capybara::ElementNotFound:
       Unable to find field "Email"
     # ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:33:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

  2) Authentication with valid information
     Failure/Error: fill_in "Email",    with: user.email.upcase
     Capybara::ElementNotFound:
       Unable to find field "Email"
     # ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:33:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

  3) Authentication with valid information
     Failure/Error: fill_in "Email",    with: user.email.upcase
     Capybara::ElementNotFound:
       Unable to find field "Email"
     # ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:33:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

  4) Authentication with valid information
     Failure/Error: fill_in "Email",    with: user.email.upcase
     Capybara::ElementNotFound:
       Unable to find field "Email"
     # ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:33:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.57909 seconds
44 examples, 4 failures

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:40 # Authentication with valid information
rspec ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:38 # Authentication with valid information
rspec ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:39 # Authentication with valid information
rspec ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:41 # Authentication with valid information

Randomized with seed 43243






Here is my rspec code:


require 'spec_helper'

describe "Authentication" do
  
  subject { page } 

  describe "sign page" do 
    before { visit signin_path }

  	it { should have_content('Sign in') }
  	it { should have_title('Sign in') }
  	end

  describe "signin" do 
  	before { visit signin_path }

  describe "with invalid information" do 
  	before { click_button "Sign in" }

  	it { should have_title('Sign in') }
  	it { should have_selector('div.alert.alert-error', text: 'Invalid') }
  	end

    describe "after visiting another page" do 
      before { click_link "Home" } 
      it { should_not have_selector('div.alert.alert-error') }
    end
  end

   describe "with valid information" do
      let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
      before do
        fill_in "Email",    with: user.email.upcase       
        fill_in "Password", with: user.password
        click_button "Sign in"
      end

  	it { should have _title(user.name) }
  	it { should have_link('Profile', href: user_path(user)) }
  	it { should have_link('Sign out',    href: signout_path) }
  	it { should_not have_link('Sign in', href: signin_path) }
  		end
	end




The Authentication page code:



<% provide(:title, "Sign in") %>
<h1>Sign in</h1>

<div class="row">
  <div class="span6 offset3">
    <%= form_for(:session, url: sessions_path) do |f| %>

      <%= f.label :email %>
      <%= f.text_field :email %>

      <%= f.label :password %>
      <%= f.password_field :password %>

      <%= f.submit "Sign in", class: "btn btn-large btn-primary" %>
    <% end %>

    <p>New user? <%= link_to "Sign up now!", signup_path %></p>
  </div>
</div>



Do you kno what's going on?

I'm having the EXACT same issue and it's driving me nuts :) The full error I get is:

1. Authentication with valid information
   Failure/Error: fill_in "Email", with: user.email.upcase
   Capybara::ElementNotFound:
   cannot fill in, no text field, text area or password field with id, name, or label 'Email' found

   (eval):2:in `fill_in'

   ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:34:in`block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Hey @benschac, I forked your repo and just pull requested a fix. The short answer to your problem is that you were missing a visit signin_path before line 79 in your gist. Capybara wasn't visiting the signin page and therefore could not find the fields to fill in.

Check out the commit for the fix here: https://github.com/donokuda/railsapp4/commit/cda4e2d7ec6238d85b9a30a0406a70e2f2458fbf

There is also a typo on line 84:
it { should have _title(user.name) } should be it { should have_title(user.name) } (you had a space between "have" and "_title"

Let me know if this worked out and if you ran into any more problems.