ActionController::RoutingError: uninitialized constant MicropostsController

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Update: This was due to a misspelled file name

correct:
~/sample_app/app/controllers/microposts_controller.rb

incorrect:
~/sample_app/app/controllers/microposts_contoller.rb

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails 4

While working through chapter 10.3, I got stuck. In the end, a misspelled file name had me chasing ghosts for a few days.

$ rspec spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb No DRb server is running. Running in local process instead ... ...FF................  Failures:   1) Authentication authorization for non-signed-in users in the Microposts controller submitting to the create action  Failure/Error: before { post microposts_path }  ActionController::RoutingError:  uninitialized constant MicropostsController  # ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:93:in `block (6 levels) in '   2) Authentication authorization for non-signed-in users in the Microposts controller submitting to the destroy action  Failure/Error: before { delete micropost_path(FactoryGirl.create(:micropost)) }  ActionController::RoutingError:  uninitialized constant MicropostsController  # ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:98:in `block (6 levels) in '   Finished in 0.92253 seconds  21 examples, 2 failures   Failed examples:   rspec ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:94 # Authentication authorization for non-signed-in users in the Microposts controller submitting to the create action  rspec ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:99 # Authentication authorization for non-signed-in users in the Microposts controller submitting to the destroy action 

Answer 1

This was due to a misspelled file name ~/sample_app/app/controllers/microposts_controller.rb (was microposts_contoller.rb)