Programming Phoenix LiveView: P97 test authentication generation issue

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Title: Programming Phoenix LiveView: P97 test authentication generation issue

I’m not familiar with the syntax (auth *) → mix test

If I run (auth *) → mix test
I get zsh: parse error near ‘-’

If I run mix test
22 tests fail and so far it seems to be because a user is not found.

One other note. I recently switched to asdf but so far everything has been working OK.

#errata/book-programming-phoenix-liveview

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Resolved.

For some reason after running “mix phx.gen.auth Accounts User users”, the line “plug(:fetch_current_user)” wasn’t added in the router.ex. I started over and tried again with the same result. On a separate project, it worked fine.

I still don’t understand the command in the book for running tests:
(auth *) → mix test

If I just run mix test, now all tests pass.

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Great to hear your tests are passing! the (auth *) is a designation of the branch that we were on when we copy/pasted that code from our terminal into the prose for this chapter. I’ll update that it should simply read mix test as you’ve found works.

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I had the same issue. IMO the book should call attention to the output of mix phx.gen.auth, which instructs to add plug(:fetch_current_user) to the router’s browser pipeline.

Thanks for the book at the many updates since it was published.

Running Elixir 1.17.2/Phoenix 1.7.14