ruby on rails - Why does RSpec report a syntax error in this spec? -

ruby on rails - Why does RSpec report a syntax error in this spec? -

when trying run rspec maintain getting error message below when running bundle exec rspec spec/models/user_spec.rb command. have searched similar issues , have seen suggestions entering in exact paths , making sure in root directory. neither have worked. additionally, have tried running bundle install. apologize if rudimentary question. i'm total noob. in advance help.

/users/sethjones/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p481/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `load': /users/sethjones/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/models/user_spec.rb:6: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting => (syntaxerror) /users/sethjones/rails_projects/sample_app/spec/models/user_spec.rb:20: syntax error, unexpected end-of-input, expecting keyword_end /users/sethjones/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p481/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `block in load_spec_files' /users/sethjones/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p481/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `each' /users/sethjones/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p481/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:819:in `load_spec_files' /users/sethjones/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p481/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:22:in `run' /users/sethjones/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p481/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in `run' /users/sethjones/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p481/gems/rspec-core-2.13.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in `block in autorun'

my gemfile follows:

source 'https://rubygems.org' ruby '2.0.0' gem 'rails', '4.0.5' gem 'bootstrap-sass', '2.3.2.0' gem 'sprockets', '2.11.0' gem 'bcrypt-ruby', '3.1.2' gem 'faker', '1.1.2' gem 'will_paginate', '3.0.4' gem 'bootstrap-will_paginate', '0.0.9' grouping :development, :test gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.8' gem 'rspec-rails', '2.13.1' # next optional lines part of advanced setup. # gem ’guard-rspec’, ’2.5.0’ # gem ’spork-rails’, ’4.0.0’ # gem ’guard-spork’, ’1.5.0’ # gem ’childprocess’, ’0.3.6’ end grouping :test gem 'selenium-webdriver', '2.35.1' gem 'capybara', '2.1.0' gem 'factory_girl_rails', '4.2.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '1.4.0', :require => false gem 'database_cleaner', github: 'bmabey/database_cleaner' gem 'growl', '1.0.3' # uncomment these lines on linux. # gem ’libnotify’, ’0.8.0'gem # uncomment these lines on windows. # gem ’rb-notifu’, ’0.0.4’ # gem ’wdm’, ’0.1.0’ end gem 'sass-rails', '4.0.1' gem 'uglifier', '2.1.1' gem 'coffee-rails', '4.0.1' gem 'jquery-rails', '3.0.4' gem 'turbolinks', '1.1.1' gem 'jbuilder', '1.0.2' grouping :doc gem 'sdoc', '0.3.20', require: false end grouping :production gem 'pg', '0.15.1' gem 'rails_12factor', '0.0.2' end

and user_spec.rb file looks this:

require 'spec_helper' describe user before { @user = user.new(name: "example user", email: "user@example.com") } end subject { @user } { should respond_to(:name) } { should respond_to(:email) } { should be_valid } describe "when name not present" before { @user.name = " "} { should_not be_valid } end end

thanks again!

the block you're passing before surrounded both do/end , curly braces. since curlies don't follow method invocation, ruby interprets them hash, , expects => before closing curly. remove curlies.

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