RSpec fails for no obvious reason

Question

So I'm using rspec to test my code as I'm going through the Rails Tutorial, and I keep getting this error when I test the code in listing 3.20. Everything checks out when I look at it with my eyeball, but RSpec doesn't seem to like it.

(Note that I just did one of the pages, not all three because they all give the same error)

james@tristan:~/rails_projects/sample_app$ rspec spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb

F...

Failures:

1) PagesController should have the right title Failure/Error: response.should have_selector("title", expected following output to contain a | Home tag: # ./spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:13:in `block (2 levels) in '

Finished in 0.97999 seconds 4 examples, 1 failure

james@tristan:~/rails_projects/sample_app$

Answer 1

At the top of that spec file it says:

before(:each) do
  #
  # Define @base_title here.
  #
end

Does your spec assign a value to @base_title?