my rspec request tests were breaking. Lailson recommended using the Rails best practice of creating feature tests, not request tests. Feature tests hit test the front end which makes calls to the pages and end up testing more than request tests..
delete respec request tests spec and dir
config capybara driver to use selenium chrome driver so I can see tests running in a live chrome browser session
create feature tests for friends page
install Faker so I can use to it make fake testing data
my rspec request tests were breaking. Lailson recommended using the Rails best practice of creating feature tests, not request tests. Feature tests hit test the front end which makes calls to the pages and end up testing more than request tests..